The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) has seen increased investigative activity by Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and other federal OIG offices in relation to allegations of actual or possible fraudulent ...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:37:00 AM
Effective October 1, 2015, physicians must specify the laterality (identify which side or both sides) of a claimant's orthopedic condition (e.g. right or left contusion ) in their medical documents and medical bills in order for a bill not to be...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:04:00 PM
One in 50 Americans are estimated to have fibromyalgia, a common chronic illness that causes widespread pain and stiffness that is intermittent and migrates throughout the body. While little is known about the cause, patients diagnosed with the...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:55:00 PM
This from the Federal Times today, 05/08/14 (re H.R. 2748). Part of this bill would remove all Postal workers from FECA and allow USPS to create its own new workers’ compensation system:
Legislation to reform the Postal Service has suffered...
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Saturday, May 10, 2014 5:17:00 PM
That’s right, you could be a federal employee and not even know it.
The US DOL Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) oversees benefits and compensation for “federal” employees injured on the job. Compensation and benefits could...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014 1:36:00 PM
February 6, 2014 - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee finished work on postal reform legislation, S. 1486, allowing the bill to move to the full Senate. The measure would make major changes in benefits under the...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 7:47:00 PM
The Federal Employees Compensation Act, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (DOL/OWCP), provides compensation benefits to civilian employees of the United States for disabilities...
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Monday, March 3, 2014 4:10:00 PM
If a claimant can only walk about 100 feet and then needs a walker, does that mean she can effectively "walk" and is not disabled for social security disability purposes?
No.
SSA regulations explain that...
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Monday, December 23, 2013 3:42:00 PM
The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes and the state agencies that...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:01:00 PM
On June 24, 2013 an appellant, through his representative, filed a timely appeal from a December 27, 2012 decision of the Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). By this decision, citing to Board precedent, OWCP denied appellant's claim...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:23:00 AM