GAO Says OWCD Needs to Update Procedures

The Federal General Accounting Office (GAO) has issued a report stating that the Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) are in need of overhaul from the claims management standpoint, as well as relative to improving fraud deterrence. During fiscal year 2000, the Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) paid about $2.1 billion in workers' compensation benefits to federal employees, including wage loss, death, and medical benefits stemming from job-related injuries and OWCP received approximately 174,000 new injury claims, ...