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CFR	Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to ESA

Title 20

Employees' Benefits

Chapter I

Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor

Part 10

Claims for Compensation Under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, As Amended

Subpart H

Special Provisions

• Section Number: 10.708
• Section Name: Can a FECA beneficiary who refuses to comply with a request to assign a claim to the United States or to prosecute the claim in his or her own name

          be penalized?

    When a FECA beneficiary refuses a request to either assign a claim 
or prosecute a claim in his or her own name, OWCP may determine that he 
or she has forfeited his or her right to all past or future compensation 
for the injury with respect to which the request is made. Alternatively, 
OWCP may also suspend the FECA beneficiary's compensation payments until 
he or she complies with the request.