Federal Employees' Compensation Act reform

摘要

The Federal Employees' Compensation Act program, administered by the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, is the largest self-insured workers' compensation system in the world-covering about 2.7 million workers. The program has not been significantly amended in more than 40 years. At a May 20 House hearing, lawmakers and stakeholders discussed how to modernize it and make the act more efficient, as well as improve its integrity. FECA, enacted in 1916, provides benefits to federal employees and their survivors for disability or death stemming from a work-related injury or illness. In 2014, nearly $3 billion in benefits and medical costs were paid out.