{"id":4431,"date":"2026-05-02T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/washington-court-upholds-workers-comp-overpayment-crackdown-on-vocational-school\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:45:39","slug":"washington-court-upholds-workers-comp-overpayment-crackdown-on-vocational-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/washington-court-upholds-workers-comp-overpayment-crackdown-on-vocational-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington court upholds workers&#8217; comp overpayment crackdown on vocational school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{e569e462-bfaf-4b57-91a1-354228a2942c}{38}\" paraid=\"2033858819\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Trouble began surfacing as early as 2014, when workers, DLI staff, and vocational counselors raised concerns about the school. By June 2019, DLI launched a formal audit covering July 2015 through June 2018. What it found was not encouraging. The school provided incomplete records in response to audit requests. Its minimum typing speed requirement for graduates was 20 words per minute\u00a0\u2013\u00a0half the 40 words per minute considered average by most employers\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and three out of 13 sampled graduates had not even met that low bar. When asked to\u00a0identify\u00a0graduates who found employment, the school named just 15 out of 388 workers who had attended during the audit period, producing a job placement rate of\u00a0roughly 3.9 percent. Washington regulations require vocational providers to\u00a0maintain\u00a0at least a 50 percent placement rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble began surfacing as early as 2014, when workers, DLI staff, and vocational counselors raised concerns about the school. By June 2019, DLI launched a formal audit covering July 2015 through June 2018. What it found was not encouraging. The school provided incomplete records in response to audit requests. Its minimum typing speed requirement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1018,852,3232,3231,2512,1838,3233,1756,380],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-comp","tag-court","tag-crackdown","tag-overpayment","tag-school","tag-upholds","tag-vocational","tag-washington","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}