DOL-OWCP Doctors For Federal Employees
As federal workmans comp doctors with offices around the country, we have worked with patients from virtually all offices with all types of ailments to get them out of pain and help them recoup the benefits OWCP owes them under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. The Office of Workers Comp Programs (OWCP) in the Department of Labor (DOL) is there to “protect the interest of workers who are injured or become ill on the job… by making timely, appropriate and accurate decisions on claims, providing prompt payment of benefits and helping injured workers return to gainful work as early as is feasible,” according to the DOL website. You have rights and benefits under FECA, and OWCP is there to make sure you get those benefits you are owed. Unfortunately, they don’t always make it easy. Many forms need to be filed; depending on the type of claim you’re filing, there are tight deadlines to be hit, and if all of the information isn’t there, they are often quick to deny claims. That’s why o...