DOL-09/08-4B: Workers’ Compensation

Reduce the consequences of work-related injuries

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Strategies: * Continue the quality case management program. * Strengthen early case intervention and assistance to Federal employers in the continuation-ofpay period to achieve better recovery and return-to-work outcomes. * Continue the gains produced by the Safety, Health and Return-to-Employment (SHARE) initiative to improve Federal agency performance in returning injured employees to work. * Strengthen claimant outreach and customer service activities — in particular, to better identify potential EEOICPA claimant populations and guide them through the claims process. Strengthen communications and information services. * Improve employers’ participation in their role as partners in the administration of laws and in service to their injured workers. * Maintain workers’ compensation programs via fair and balanced adjudication. * Reduce claims costs and delays stemming from unnecessary challenges to claims decisions. * Ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of benefits payments; accurate liability forecasts; and reduced risk and improved security for its benefit funds. * Assist employers in compliance with the Federal workers’ compensation laws.

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• Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs: The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers programs providing wage replacement, medical treatment, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to workers and their survivors to compensate for work-related injury, illness, and death.
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• Workers

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