GAO Says Postal WC Data Unreliable

The Federal General Accounting Office has released a report concluding that the the Labor Department's data on US Postal Service workers' compensation claims is unreliable.Stating that Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) needs to find a better way to track whether it pays benefits to injured federal workers on time, the report criticized the department for not keeping reliable records of dates when a claim is initiated and closed, making it hard to figure out whether the processing time is unreasonably long, says the GAO."However, the reliability of our estimates is compr...