20 C.F.R. § 10.0

What are the provisions of the FECA, in general?

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The Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) as amended (5 U.S.C. 8101 et seq.) provides for the payment of workers' compensation benefits to civilian officers and employees of all branches of the Government of the United States. The regulations in this part describe the rules for filing, processing, and paying claims for benefits under the FECA. Proceedings under the FECA are non-adversarial in nature.

(a) The FECA has been amended and extended a number of times to provide workers' compensation benefits to volunteers in the Civil Air Patrol (5 U.S.C. 8141), members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (5 U.S.C. 8140), Peace Corps Volunteers (5 U.S.C. 8142), Job Corps enrollees and Volunteers in Service to America (5 U.S.C. 8143), members of the National Teachers Corps (5 U.S.C. 8143a), certain student employees (5 U.S.C. 5351 and 8144), certain law enforcement officers not employed by the United States (5 U.S.C. 8191-8193), and various other classes of persons who provide or have provided services to the Government of the United States.

(b) The FECA provides for payment of several types of benefits, including compensation for wage loss, schedule awards, medical and related benefits, and vocational rehabilitation services for conditions resulting from injuries sustained in performance of duty while in service to the United States.

(c) The FECA also provides for payment of monetary compensation to specified survivors of an employee whose death resulted from a work-related injury and for payment of certain burial expenses subject to the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8134.

(d) All types of benefits and conditions of eligibility listed in this section are subject to the provisions of the FECA and of this part. This section shall not be construed to modify or enlarge upon the provisions of the FECA.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1999–2020 · leading case: United States v. Frankie Sanders, 952 F.3d 263 (5th Cir. 2020).

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United States v. Frankie Sanders, 952 F.3d 263 (5th Cir. 2020). “§§ 8103–04, 8118(b)(2); 20 C.F.R. § 10.0 (b). Those 1 The company originally went as “Team Work Ready” (“TWR”) but then became known as Federal Work Ready.”

Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers, Afl-Cio v. United States Postal Serv., 272 F.3d 182 (3rd Cir. 2001). “See 20 C.F.R. § 10.0 (proceedings under the FECA are non-adversarial in nature).”

People v. Hamilton, 241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 765 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th 2018). “The United States Treasury forwards funds to the Department of Labor to make payouts to a federal employee on a workers' compensation claim, and the federal agency for whom the employee works eventually reimburses the Department of Labor for the payments from that agency's…”

Tippetts v. United States, 308 F.3d 1091 (10th Cir. 2002). “20 C.F.R. § 10.0 . It provides that “[t]he United States shall pay compensation .”

Luellen v. Henderson, 54 F. Supp. 2d 775 (W.D. Tenn. 1999). · cites it 2× “See 20 C.F.R. § 10.0 . Among other things, the FECA delineates the rules for filing, processing, and paying claims for workers’ compensation benefits.”

Quarrick v. Brennan (W.D. Pa. 2019). “47 ¶ 32; 20 C.F.R. § 10.0 . FECA, in turn, is administered by the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (“OWCP”), which provides for limited duty jobs to accommodate employees with compensable job-related injuries.”

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