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OWCP Interagency Meeting Agenda
  • Welcome and Introductions


  • SHARE FY2005 Performance
    • OSHA
    • OWCP

  • DFEC FY2005 Overview
    • Statistics
    • iFECS
    • ACS


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OWCP
Interagency Meeting


  • March 21, 2006
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Safety Health and Return to Employment
(SHARE) Update

  • Shelby Hallmark
  • Director, OWCP
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SHARE
  • Two years of initiative are complete
  • Government timeliness goal met and exceeded by almost 30%
  • Government LPD goal missed by 2.2%
    • 56.1 days for FY05 represents improvement over 62 days for FY04

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FY05 Performance
on
Goals 3 and 4
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Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 Timeliness
Major Agency
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Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 Timeliness
Major Agency – FY06 Goal vs. Actual
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Goal 4 - Lost Production Days
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Goal 4 - Lost Production Days
Major Agency
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Goal 4 - Lost Production Days
 Major Agency – FY06 Goal vs. Actual
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Exceptional Achievements in Timeliness for FY05
  • “Gold Star” Agencies
    •  met their goals and exceeded 80% timeliness

      • Commodity Futures Trading Commission – 100%
      • Labor – 93.2%
      • Veterans Affairs – 85.5%





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Exceptional Achievements in
Lost Production Days for FY05
  • Gold Star” Agencies
    •  met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
      • Air Force – 30.5
      • Army – 35.6
      • Defense – 33.1
      • Education – 12.1
      • Environmental Protection Agency – 9.7
      • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – 35.1
      • Executive Office of the President – 0.2
      • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -6.1


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Exceptional Achievements in
Lost Production Days for FY05
  • Gold Star” Agencies (continued)
    •  met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
      • Federal Labor Relations Authority  - 0
      • Federal Trade Commission – 3.9
      • General Services Administration 31.7
      • Health & Human Services – 19.8
      • Holocaust Memorial Council - 0.7
      • International Broadcasting Bureau – 8.6
      • Labor – 32.2



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Exceptional Achievements in
Lost Production Days for FY05
  • “Gold Star” Agencies (continued)
    •  met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
      • NASA – 4.7
      • National Credit Union Administration – 48.3
      • National Endowment for the Arts – 14.8
      • National Science Foundation -2.9
      • National Transportation Safety Board – 0
      • Nuclear Regulatory Commission – 3.8
      • Office of Navajo & Hopi Indian Relocation - 1.9
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Exceptional Achievements in
Lost Production Days for FY05

  • Gold Star” Agencies (continued)
    •  met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
      • Office of Personnel Management - 10.8
      • Railroad Retirement Board - 3.7
      • Securities and Exchange Commission - 7.7
      • Selective Service System – 3.4
      • Social Security Administration – 27.6
      • The Kennedy Center - 20.7
      • Transportation – 35.9




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Where do we go from here?
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What is OWCP doing?
  • Employee Express – Claimant Query System rolled out to EEX users


  • District Office targeting of agencies


  • Improvements to the SHARE website


  • Training sessions and seminars


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For SHARE to succeed, we must do both:
  • Reduce the number of serious injuries
  • Get people back to work


    • It’s a joint Safety and Workers’ Comp. activity, and agencies have to get both right
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LPD “Musts”
  • Government as a whole can’t meet SHARE LPD goal if ALL AGENCIES DON’T COMMIT AND IMPROVE
  • Minor injures that aren’t accommodated become “SERIOUS” – RTW is key
  • Goal 4 of SHARE can be met in 2006 but requires intense effort now
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FECA Reform (Redux)
  • Applies to new claims only.


  • Strengthens the program while still maintaining generous benefits.


  • Projected savings of $591.6 million over the next 10 years.
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FECA Reform
  • Incentives
    • “Conversion benefit” for retirement aged claimants
    • Setting compensation at 70% for all claimants
    • Change the schedule award to allow for payment during the wage loss period, eliminate FECA/OPM shuffle
    • Retirement “Bonus” (Allen bill)
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FECA Reform
  • Equity and Fixes
    • Restore waiting period
    • Allow for subrogation of COP for Third Party Claims
    • Update disfigurement and burial payments
    • Pay all schedule awards at average salary rate (GS-11 step 3)
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Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation

FY 2005 – The Year In Review

  • Douglas Fitzgerald
  • Director, DFEC
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Program Performance
Internal Measurements
  • Workload Processing for 2005


  • 151,690 new cases created
  • 125,571 decisions issued
  • 21,455 initial claims for wage loss received
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Program Performance
Internal Measurements
  • Workload Processing for 2005
  • 93.2 % of 129,528  traumatic cases adjudicated within 45 days.
  • 87.8% of 15,793 basic occupational disease cases adjudicated within 90 days.
  • 76.7% of 5,403 extended occupational disease cases adjudicated within 180 days.
    • 99.3% of extended occupational disease cases adjudicated within 365 days.
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Program Performance
Internal Measurements
  • Communications Performance for 2005
  • 86.6% of general written inquiries answered within 30 days
    • 97.4% met courtesy standards
    • 93.8% met knowledge and accuracy standards
    • 95.4% met clear language standards
  • Less than 2.55 minutes average hold time for telephone inquiries to district offices


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Agency Query System
Claimant Query System
  • Claimants can use Employee Express to access their claim information


  • Other Agencies’ systems can now be addressed as a result of successful integration with Employee Express


  • AQS now refreshed daily
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ACS
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ACS Update
  • Treatment Suite Viewer


  • CA-16 Process


  • Medical Provider Outreach


  • ICD-9
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