One Defendant Admits Receiving Nearly $175,000 by Submitting/False Fraudulent Mileage Claims DALLAS — Two former U.S. Postal Service letter carriers from the Dallas area have been indicted, in unrelated cases, on charges of stealing government funds with regard to the Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP) claims they filed, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks […]
The Office Of Workers’ Compensation Programs has laid out several reforms for FECA. Below is the prepared testimony of Acting Director Gary Steinberg for April 13, 2011 House Subcommittee Hearing On FECA:
Postal Supervisor Claimed A Hostile Work Environment aggravated his medical condition and USPS failed to investigate. The following facts are based upon the allegations in John Pell’s amended complaint filed in the United States District Court and information from the EEOC case. Pell is a former employee of the USPS who worked at the Framingham, […]
SYRACUSE, New York — A former U.S. Postal Service employee from Prospect was indicted Wednesday on federal worker’s compensation charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Syracuse said. Kimberly Morris, 36, allegedly falsely claimed that a work-related injury prevented her from performing any duties with the Postal Service between April 4 and June 3, 2010, when she […]
Sen. Collins’ Bill Would End Perverse Incentives Keeping People on a More Lucrative System into Retirement Years February 2, 2011 Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today introduced legislation to stop the costly and escalating abuses of the federal workers’ compensation system. The Federal Employment Compensation Act […]
The USPS Office Of Inspector General asked readers the following question: What can the Postal Service do to reduce workers’ compensation costs? In fiscal year 2009, the Postal Service workers’ compensation expense was approximately $2.2 billion, an 81 percent increase from $1.2 billion in FY 2008. These costs include $55 million in DOL administrative fees […]
Press Release from the United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio (January 27, 2011) Former postal employee Norman J. Motko, Jr., 61, of Cleveland, was sentenced to five months imprisonment and ordered to pay $116,980.34 in restitution after previously pleading guilty to worker’s compensation fraud, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District […]
DOUGLAS S. MARSHALL, of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, pro se. ELIZABETH A. SPECK, Trial Attorney, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, for respondent. With her on the brief were TONY WEST, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and KENNETH M. DINTZER, Assistant Director. __________________________ MARSHALL v. USPS 2 […]
Press release from the Federal Bureau Of Investigation SANTA ANA, CA—Two brothers pleaded not guilty today to federal charges that allege they submitted bills that fraudulently sought hundreds of thousands of dollars from a government workers’ compensation program for supposedly transporting injured Postal Service employees to medical appointments that never took place. Roman “Mike” Aghajanyan, […]
Injured employees who undergo the National Reassessment Process (NRP) and are told by the Postal Service either that there is only partial-day work available or that there is no work available, should consider applying for unemployment compensation. This temporary financial assistance can serve as an important monetary bridge during the time that an employee is […]