Federal claims examiners in the last 12 months have failed to perform due diligence on a number of claims, resulting in overpayments of benefits, a report on the federal workers' compensation system has found.
On the other hand, the Federal Employees' Compensation Act fund had $35 billion in actuarial liabilities as of the end of September. That's $1.5 billion less than at this time last year, the report noted.
And amounts owed to the fund by various federal agencies for injury claims have also dropped slightly, to $4.5 billion. Agencies are required to reimburse the Office ...
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