Claim of Volcjak v. Cherry Lane Motors, Inc.

Appeals from two decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 3, 1989, which awarded claimants death benefits without allowance for an offset of Social Security survivors’ benefits.

These two appeals arise from two separate decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming determinations that refused to offset death benefits awarded to claimants, Marie D. Volcjak and Camille Costa, by the amount of survivors’ benefits that each received as widows under the Social Security Act.

Ludvick Volcjak died on March 22, 1987. Dominick Costa died four days later. Claimants, as…