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Labor Needs To Adjust Compensation Benefits It Pays Injured Federal Employees to Levels Appropriate to Their Disabilities

HRD-84-29 Published: Mar 26, 1984. Publicly Released: Mar 26, 1984.
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GAO reviewed the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs' (OWCP) efforts to establish wage earning capacities which the Federal Employees' Compensation Act requires to be used in determining the compensation benefits to be paid to injured Federal employees.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should direct OWCP to ensure that it implements the plans for reviewing long-term roll cases for the purposes of terminating or adjusting, where appropriate, partially disabled employees' compensation benefits. If this effort is not successful, the Secretary should consider establishing a task force to: (1) identify from the backlog of periodic roll cases beneficiaries who are no longer totally disabled; (2) collect the information needed to establish their wage earning capacities; and (3) where appropriate, adjust their compensation benefits.
Closed – Implemented
Labor believes that it has already responded to the concerns in the GAO report. Labor has a plan for addressing the problems discussed in the report, successful implementation of the plan is not yet assured.

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Claims settlementCost controlDisability benefitsEligibility determinationsFederal employeesIncome statisticsMonitoringWorkers compensationCompensationBeneficiaries