OPM Risks Paying Workers’ Comp for Employees Who Are No Longer Injured

Government Executive: The Office of Personnel Management may inadvertently be paying workers’ compensation to employees who no longer qualify for the benefit, the agency’s watchdog concluded in a new report.

“OPM’s long-term [Federal Employees Compensation Act] cases may be vulnerable to possible fraudulent payments,” the inspector general’s report stated. “During our evaluation, we identified 15 FECA cases where either the injured employee or the surviving family member had been receiving FECA payments with very limited verification of continued eligibility.”

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