Claims, Days Lost and Costs under the Government Employees Compensation Act 1993 to 1999

Total Claims

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
New Claims2	20,902	19,721	18,044	16,803	17,011	15,381	15,710
Previous Claims3	18,641	18,802	18,780	18,565	18,604	16,952	18,656
Total Claims	39,543	38,523	36,824	35,368	35,615	32,333	34,366

Total Days Lost

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
New Claims2	155,200	127,329	115,255	96,645	75,143	63,587	71,397
Previous Claims3	114,448	112,053	110,310	103,395	66,174	71,210	74,074
Total Days Lost	269,648	239,382	225,565	200,040	141,317	134,797	145,471

Total Costs⁴

	1993 $	1994 $	1995 $	1996 $	1997 $	1998 $	1999 $
New Claims2	7,886,623	8,123,089	6,788,352	5,292,555	5,935,607	4,948,956	6,266,810
Previous Claims3	71,850,978	72,437,555	75,432,332	84,064,099	70,534,531	69,320,397	74,347,141
Total Costs4	79,737,601	80,560,644	82,220,684	89,356,654	76,470,138	74,269,353	80,613,950

Notes:
¹ The Act covers all employees of the federal government and most Crown corporations.
² Represents all new claims, with and without costs.
³ Represents claims submitted in previous years with costs during the reported year.
⁴ Does not include administrative costs paid to the provincial commissions. Does not include salaries paid by employers.