USPS agrees to $49 million settlement after having long ‘dawdled’ in payments to beneficiaries

By Joe Davidson – April 11, 2017 It’s bad enough for family members when a loved one dies. Getting cheated by Uncle Sam afterward makes it worse. He did that in cases involving more than 2,000 beneficiaries who didn’t get the full benefit of U.S. Postal Service life insurance policies. After waging a losing fight,…

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OPM Wants to Boost Death Benefits for Feds Killed on-the-job by $90K

The Office of Personnel Management wants to significantly increase death benefits for federal civilian employees killed on the job from $10,000 to $100,000. OPM on Friday sent a legislative proposal to the House and Senate requesting Congress to increase the current death gratuity rate $90,000 for civilian workers killed in the line of duty, raise…

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Video: Widow of Postal Worker Denied Death Benefits

The Federal Office of Workers’ Compensation says there’s not enough evidence to establish what led to the fatal injury of the worker, a 28-year-veteran of the United States Postal Service. [maxgallery id=”43045″] By Vicky Nguyen, Liz Wagner and Felipe Escamilla December 14, 2015 An East Bay widow whose husband died after he sustained a serious…

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