5 ECAB Decisions Reveal How Workers’ Comp Overpayment Happens

By Frank Ferreri, Jan. 17, 2024 For a variety of reasons, some benign and others more sinister, Federal employees may wind up on the receiving end of a workers’ compensation overpayment. What happens when the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board decides that a...

Year in Review: Top FELTG Newsletter Stories of 2023

By Dan Gephart, December 12, 2023 FELTG Nation, welcome to another year-end News Flash, where we reveal the two most popular FELTG newsletter stories (based on the number of reads and forwards) for each month of 2023. This is our fifth year in this format, which...

New Processing Rules for COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Take Effect

By Frank Ferreri, February 14, 2023 As the old year came to a close, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) issued a Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) Bulletin (No. 23-02, to be exact) announcing changes that would be...

OWCP Covers ARPA Steps, Definitions for COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims

By Frank Ferreri, May 19, 2021 With the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) looking to make it easier for Federal employees diagnosed with COVID-19 to file workers’ compensation claims, the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs has put together updated guidance for...

Workers’ Comp Rules for COVID-19 Depend on Job Type

By Frank Ferreri, Special Guest Author, July 28, 2020 If anything in recent history has proven to be the ultimate “disruptor,”  COVID-19 certainly makes a strong case for top billing. Among the many changes the pandemic has brought are new approaches to workers’...

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