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OWCP Compensation Case Study

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In some instances, OWCP provides individuals that are in receipt of OWCP compensation, who choose to retire the option of remaining on the OWCP roll or disability retirement. Since OWCP is more lucrative financially, so the majority select the OWCP option. Yet, many claimants that are eligible for retirement do not exercise the retirement option. Many claimants and others are unaware that if a claimant dies from a condition other than the work-related condition that compensation and associated benefits cease, if the employee has not exercised the retirement option. A claimant’s heirs do not continue to receive compensation or medical benefits (as do those that are incarcerated), which serves as additional rationale to support that employees …show more content…

The following provide applied to intermittent and seasonal workers could be used to adjust compensation at the employee’s minimum age of retirement. Under FECA 10.216, “For intermittent and seasonal workers, whether permanent or temporary, who do not work either the same number of hours or every week of the year (or period of appointment), the weekly pay rate is the average weekly earnings established by dividing (÷) the total earnings during the full 12-month period immediately preceding the date of injury (excluding overtime) (A), by the number of weeks (or partial weeks) worked during that year (B) (that is, A ÷ B); or 150 times the average daily wage earned in the employment during the days employed within the full year immediately preceding the date of injury divided by 52 weeks, whichever is …show more content…

This would also provide another alternative, an opportunity to modify compensation based upon a basic retirement annuity computation at minimum retirement age. Either alternative would closer align compensation benefits at retirement age to be comparable to those of retirees. However, the adoption of an amendment requiring a 4.4% mandatory contribution to an employee’s retirement percentage provides a basic annuity computation.

A provision for agencies to make whole “solely the employee” minimums contribution for years without contribution and matching funds would provide an opportunity for claimants to retire would serve to stem the tide of lifetime compensation beneficiaries. Gain, USPS projection for future liability currently totals $19

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