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Highly Cost-Effective Self-Insurance Cons

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On its website, DOL states, “FECA is a highly cost-effective self-insurance system. Overhead is low, and because the system is non-adversarial, the Federal government avoids time-consuming and expensive litigation”, yet this is not the case for the USPS and other Federal Agencies that are being levied with multi-million dollar chargeback costs by the Department of Labor.

Amend §10.18 to indefinitely terminate OWCP benefits for claimants that receive a felony conviction while in receipt of compensation benefits.

In the vast majority of US enterprise, rarely is an individual or their beneficiaries entitled to receive compensation after or during incarceration for a felony conviction.

Amend §10.18 to state, “When a beneficiary is incarcerated in a State or Federal jail, prison, penal institution or other correctional facility due to a State or Federal for a “felony conviction” while in receipt of OWCP benefits, he or she “permanently” forfeits “all rights” to compensation benefits.

Note: Direct deposit and no ability to cross match make it …show more content…

8133 (a) to terminate monthly pay, to dependents when a beneficiary receives a felony conviction, while in receipt of OWCP benefits.

Amend §10.8133 to state, “When a beneficiary is incarcerated in a State or Federal jail, prison, penal institution or other correctional facility due to a State or Federal for a “felony conviction” while in receipt of OWCP benefits, he or she “permanently” forfeits “all rights” to compensation benefits and subsequently those paid to their dependents.
Payments during Felony Imprisonment
(1) If the claimant has eligible dependents, the CE should calculate compensation by applying the percentages outlined in 5 U.S.C. § 8133(a) (1) through (5) to the claimant's gross current entitlement, i.e. 50% of gross current entitlement to the spouse if there is no child, or 45% to the spouse if there is a child (children), with 15% to each child, not to exceed 75% of gross current

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