A nearly $2.5 million rebate from the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation will help the City of Toledo (OH) increase the size of this year’s class of firefighter recruits, according to the city, reports The Toledo Blaze.
The city will hire 50 firefighter recruits in August, up from the 30 originally budgeted for, Toledo spokesman Jen Sorgenfrei said. While the rebate won’t directly pay for the increased recruit class size, the unexpected funds provided a budgetary cushion that enabled the move, she said.
The city is among some 210,000 employers that are receiving checks in the mail this summer totaling $1 billion in one-time workers’ compensation rebates attributed to better-than-expected earnings on the insurance fund’s investments.
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