When most federal employees across the country are injured or sickened on the job, their exclusive remedy is to file for federal workers’ compensation benefits. This is the only way for them to seek coverage for financial losses from work-related physical or mental...
OWCP – Federal Workers’ Compensation
Federal firefighters to receive long-overdue assistance
Due to their work, firefighters face a much greater risk of cancer than other workers. Accordingly, 48 states have passed workers’ compensation laws that presume certain cancers, and other diseases, are work-related. These laws help firefighters qualify more easily...
How is workers’ compensation different for federal employees?
If you suffer a work-related injury or illness, you may find yourself burdened by medical bills and unable to work. Workers in the private sector tend to address these concerns by filing for workers’ compensation. As a federal employee, you may also file for workers’...
OWCP: an acronym that injured federal employees will want to know
Federal employees across the United States comprise a vast and varied demographic. Indeed, myriad sources routinely spotlight the federal government as the country’s largest employer.Diversity reigns across that singular work realm, obviously, with scores of...
When Work Causes A Mental Health Impairment
Many jobs are stressful. But some jobs are so stressful that they cause employees to develop mental health impairments - or in some cases, aggravate pre-existing impairments.There are two types of work-related injuries: Physical and psychological. Most people think of...
Are U.S. ‘sonic attack’ victims getting all the help they need?
The reports are clear. Some U.S. diplomats in Cuba say they have come under sonic attack while serving at the embassy in Havana. Officials put the number of individuals at 21, but one official says there have been nearly 50 attacks all told. In addition, new U.S....
What are possible steps to appeal an OWCP final determination?
Claim denied. A worker does not want to see those words after being hurt on the job. Workers' compensation programs in all states are supposed to be there on a no-fault basis - founded on the principle that injuries happen. When they do, a worker should be given the...
What’s a consequential injury?
Workers' compensation is not meant to be difficult. The premise is simple. A worker, government or private, hurt on the job, is entitled to the medical treatment and time needed to make as full a recovery as possible. You would think that denials would be few and far...
Can I refuse a limited duty work offer after a job injury?
Workers' compensation benefits are a right to which everyone is entitled. Federal workers are no exception, even if the vehicles for delivering those benefits vary from what are available for private sector employees.Under the federal system, the Office of Workers...
What do I need to know if I get hurt in my federal job?
Accidents can happen anytime, anywhere. That's sort of the nature of accidents. However, if you are a worker, and specifically a federal worker in Texas or anywhere federal employees are employed, risk of injury has a way of increasing.The Federal Employees'...
