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Injury On Duty
Who Decides Your Claim
What to do if Your
Claim is Denied
What to do if You Have an Occupational
Illness or Injury
What to do if You Have
a Traumatic Injury
What to do if You Have
a Recurrence
What OWCP Benefits
are Available
Returning to Work
OWCP Terminology
How do You File
Your Claim
Guidelines for Proving Your Claim with
Medical Evidence
FECA Benefits as Explained by OWCP
Appeal Rights
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WHAT TO DO IF YOUR CLAIM IS DENIED:
HEARING, APPLEALS
BOARD OR RECONSIDERATION |
The filing of CA-1 or CA-2 will normally result in a
formal OWCP decision. You have 30 days from the days
from the date of an OWCP District Office denial to
request an oral hearing from OWCP District Office denial
to request an oral hearing from OWCP’s Branch of
Hearings and Review in Washington, DC, or you may
request instead that they perform a review of the
written record with no oral testimony.
You have 90 days from the date of any formal OWCP merit
decision to appeal to the Employees’ Compensation
Appeals Board (ECAB), extended to one year for good
reason.
You may also, within one year of any OWCP or Appeals
Board decision made after June 1, 1987, request
reconsideration (review) from the OWCP District Office.
In order to secure District Office reconsideration, new
and detailed relevant evidence (usually medical) must be
submitted.
You cannot have a Branch of Hearing and Review oral
hearing or review of the written record
if you have already received an OWCP reconsideration
decision.
• OWCP’s policy is to provide a decision on a request
for reconsideration within 90 days.
• It is the policy of the Branch of Hearings and Review
to provide a decision regarding a
review of the written record within 120 days. However,
it may take six months to a year
or longer after your request for an oral hearing to get
a decision. The length of the delay
depends primarily on how soon a hearing representative
from Washington, DC is available
to be assigned to your geographic area to hold hearings.
• If your appeal is to ECAB it could be approximately
one and one-half years or longer before
you get a decision. This is due to the large number of
cases backlogged at the Appeal Board. |
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