Inspector General: GAO Paid More than $400,000 in Benefits to Ineligible Employee

The Government Accountability Office's inspector general is recommending that the agency change its workers' compensation practices after he discovered that an employee had been collecting indemnity payments for 30 years. Adam Trzeciak found that the GAO's Human Capital Office was unable to provide the employee's workers' compensation file upon request, according to a Dec. 18 memorandum. After receiving the file from the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, the inspector found that "the claimant abandoned suitable work in 1999 wi...