WINNIPEG – The Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba (WCB) has announced a surplus of $110 million. The WCB released its annual report along with a five-year financial plan on May 20. “The surplus allowed us to announce a decrease of the average assessment rate for 2015 by approximately 13 per cent to $1.30 per $100 of assessable payroll,” said president and CEO Winston Maharaj. The report also introduced a new measure of “days lost to workplace injury and illness”, which is defined as the sum total of days the WCB has paid to workers in a given time frame, the WCB said in a statement on May 20. For 2014, 1.8 days were lost to workplace injury and illness for each full-time worker, down from 2.15 in 2010. The time-loss injury rate also remained consistent, at 3.2 per 100 full time workers in 2014.