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089078 1 (1976-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvce0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 2 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTIN OFFICE 'c WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 SN REPLY RFRTOZ HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION December 27', 1976 Mr. Fred G. Clark Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management Department of Labor NEE 1111111111111111111111111111i1 LM089078 Dear Mr. Clark: We are making a review of the administration of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) by the Department's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP). As part of this review, we have been evaluating the criteria and standards used by OWCP for awarding compensation for hearing loss. We recognize that there is an OWCP Task Force that is reviewing the administration of the FECA and that OWCP is considering the possibility of funding a study of hearing loss compensation criteria Since any revisions to the present criteria that may result from such studies may not take effect for many months, we would like to bring to your attention one feature of the criteria which does not seem to be supported by the findings of prior studies. These studies were made by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (AAOO), the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics (CHABA). This matter concerns the OWCP method of deductinq a fence from each of the measured frequencies instead of the AAOO, NIOSH and CHABA accepted method of deducting a fence from the average of the measured frequencies. If our review of a sample of 100 compensated hearing loss cases filed between calendar year 1970 and 1976 is representative of the 11,000 hearing loss cases in the backlog, the differences in these two methods could potentially represent an average of about $1,900 more per applicable case by using the OWCP method, or a potential $9 million. . ...n.. ul....... num....m.a... llullul...... . IIIIIIIIIIII. ....

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