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Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Percentages of Take-Home Pay Replaced by Compensation Benefits

GGD-98-174 Published: Aug 17, 1998. Publicly Released: Aug 25, 1998.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on workers' compensation benefits for lost wages provided to workers with job-related injuries under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), focusing on: (1) the percentages of take-home pay that FECA benefits replaced for beneficiaries on the long-term rolls who were receiving full benefits; (2) career patterns of workers in selected occupations that were the same as the occupations of FECA beneficiaries; and (3) beneficiaries' characteristics such as current age, age when injured, compensation benefits paid in 1997, and pay at the time of injury adjusted to 1997 pay levels.

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