Feds Update Firefighter Claims Process

The federal Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs has updated its policy in the Federal Employees’ Compensation Program to further streamline claims processing for federal firefighters with certain occupational diseases. FECA Bulletin 23-05 builds on changes made last year and further implements provisions of the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. In April 2022, OWCP changed the policy to ease the evidentiary requirement for federal firefighters to connect their exposure to toxic substances with certain diseas...