USPS OIG: White Paper on Federal Employees’ Compensation Act Reform
White Papers – HR-WP-14-003 08/18/2014 Executive Summary Enacted in 1916, the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) provides medical, compensation, death, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to civilian federal employees who sustain injuries — including occupational disease — because of their employment with the federal government. The U.S. Congress amended FECA in 1974 to provide continuation of…