Texas All-Lines Adjuster Practice Test
TX Adjuster Texas Workers' Compensation Practice Questions
Texas Workers' Compensation makes up 3 of every 50 questions on a Tigertest TX Adjuster practice test. Here are 10 of the 12 questions on it, each with the answer and the reason.
Updated by the Tigertest team. Based on the Pearson VUE Texas all-lines adjuster content outline effective September 2026. Original questions; 50 per test, weighted like the real 150-question exam. Not affiliated with TDI or Pearson VUE.
1. An injured Texas worker is disabled from the day of the injury and is off work for 10 days. Income benefits begin to accrue on:
- A.The 15th day after the injury
- B.The eighth day after the injury
- C.The day of the injury
- D.The fourth day after the injury
Answer: B. Labor Code 408.082 pays no income benefits unless disability lasts at least a week. When it lasts longer than a week, weekly benefits begin to accrue on the eighth day after the date of the injury (or after disability began, if it began later).
2. A Texas worker's disability lasts three weeks. Income benefits are then computed from:
- A.The day of return to work
- B.The 15th day of disability
- C.The eighth day of disability
- D.The day disability began
Answer: D. Under Labor Code 408.082(c), when disability continues for two weeks or longer, compensation is computed from the date the disability began.
3. A Texas worker with an average weekly wage of $900 now earns $300 a week on light duty. Ignoring the cap and the low-wage rule, temporary income benefits are:
- A.$420 a week
- B.$450 a week
- C.$630 a week
- D.$600 a week
Answer: A. Labor Code 408.103 pays 70 percent of the difference between the average weekly wage and post-injury earnings: 70 percent of $600 = $420.
4. If no earlier date is certified, a Texas worker reaches maximum medical improvement when how long has passed since income benefits began to accrue?
- A.156 weeks
- B.26 weeks
- C.104 weeks
- D.52 weeks
Answer: C. Labor Code 401.011 defines maximum medical improvement as the earliest date further material recovery is not expected, or the end of 104 weeks from accrual of income benefits.
5. A Texas worker reaches maximum medical improvement with a 12 percent impairment rating. Impairment income benefits are paid for:
- A.24 weeks
- B.48 weeks
- C.36 weeks
- D.12 weeks
Answer: C. Labor Code 408.121 pays impairment income benefits for three weeks for each percentage point of impairment: 12 x 3 = 36 weeks.
6. To qualify for supplemental income benefits, a Texas worker's impairment rating must be at least:
- A.15 percent
- B.20 percent
- C.25 percent
- D.10 percent
Answer: A. Labor Code 408.142 requires an impairment rating of 15 percent or more, plus earnings below 80 percent of the average weekly wage because of the impairment.
7. Texas workers' compensation death benefits equal what share of the deceased employee's average weekly wage, subject to the weekly maximum?
- A.100 percent
- B.70 percent
- C.60 percent
- D.75 percent
Answer: D. Labor Code 408.181 sets death benefits at 75 percent of the employee's average weekly wage. Temporary income benefits are 70 percent of the wage loss.
8. For an employee who worked for the employer for the 13 weeks before the injury, the average weekly wage is:
- A.The highest single week's pay
- B.13 weeks of wages divided by 13
- C.Last month's wages divided by 4
- D.A year of wages divided by 52
Answer: B. Labor Code 408.041 adds the wages paid in the 13 consecutive weeks before the injury and divides by 13.
9. A Texas carrier is not liable for compensation when the employee's horseplay was:
- A.Reported the next day
- B.A producing cause
- C.Seen by a supervisor
- D.Done during lunch
Answer: B. Labor Code 406.032 excuses the carrier when horseplay was a producing cause of the injury, along with intoxication and intentional self-injury.
10. A Texas employee must notify the employer of a work injury no later than:
- A.One year after it occurs
- B.15 days after it occurs
- C.Eight days after it occurs
- D.30 days after it occurs
Answer: D. Labor Code 409.001 requires notice within 30 days of the injury. The claim for compensation with the division is due within one year.
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