Federal Employees Program
This page serves as a resource for Federal Agencies as the employers of Federal workers with work-related injuries or illnesses.
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General FECA Guidance and Training for Agencies:
- Injury Compensation Specialist (ICS) Basic Training - Training for employing agency injury compensation specialist is available in two ways. Instructor-led online training conducted by the Federal Employees Program or a series or self-paced training modules.
- Medical Authorization/Bill Pay FAQs for Employing Agencies - Frequently asked questions from employing agencies about their role in the medical authorization and bill pay process.
Claim Management and Submission Resources for Agencies:
- The Employees' Compensation and Management Portal (ECOMP) - ECOMP is a free, web-based application. Agencies that have enrolled with OWCP may use ECOMP for a variety of functions, including filing certain claim forms and uploading supporting documentation, such as letters, job offers, and medical reports. View instructions for document upload and access other tutorials here. Federal Agencies may also use the Agency Query System (AQS) in ECOMP to access information on FECA claims, including claim status, compensation payment history and medical bill payment history.
- Regulations on timely submission of claims (20 C.F.R. §10.110 - §10.113)
Agency Chargeback and Data Reports
- Agency Reference Tables - A listing of the Department of Labor Reference Tables. These are common codes used in injury reporting. Included are Occupation Codes, Location of Injury Codes, Nature of Injury Codes, Cause of Injury Codes, and Agency Code Query.
- OWCP provides periodic chargeback and data reports to agencies for monitoring and management of agency cases. The attached Data Dictionaries are for usage by those agency representatives that receive weekly, monthly and/or quarterly data extracts from OWCP and require this information to read the data fields:
| Report | |
|---|---|
| ACPS Data Dictionary V2.0 |  |
| Bill Pay Data Dictionary v1 | |
| Chargeback Data Dictionary 2 | |
| CMF Data Dictionary (New) | |
Privacy Act
- Privacy Act Systems - DOL/GOVT-1 - This information relates to FECA case files under the control of any agency. It provides categories of records in the system and the routine uses of records maintained in the system, including categories of users and the purposes of such use.
- Presentation on the Privacy Act and System of Records View | Download