Outcome Goal 4.3: Health Benefits and Retirement Security
Improve health benefits and retirement security for all workers.
Stakeholder(s):
- Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP): The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers four compensation programs that provide a critically important
safety net for injured or ill workers.
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): In support of the OWCP program for federal workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plays an important
role in promoting safe and healthy workplaces. Program benefits include monetary compensation for injury or illness, wage
replacement, medical treatment, and vocational rehabilitation and other reemployment services.
- Employment and Training Administration (ETA): The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) administers the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program which provides the unemployed
with some income while they seek work ...
- Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA): Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) administers the appeals process for denials of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act (COBRA) benefits subsidy added by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that helps dislocated workers
to pay for health coverage. EBSA also, through its enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974 (ERISA), protects the security of retirement and health plan benefits and assets for all workers who have employer-sponsored
plans.
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC): The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the aforementioned government corporation, was created to encourage the continuation
and maintenance of private-sector defined-benefit pension plans, provide timely and uninterrupted payment of pension benefits,
and keep pension insurance premiums at a minimum.
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