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HRD-81-107 1 (1981-06-12)

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                      UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                              WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548
            RELEASED    RESTRICTED-Not to be released outside the Gei-eral
                        Accou 'y Office exce,)t on Vic bas s of specific approva!
HUMAN RESOURCES         by the 0 flic of Coingressional Relations.
   DIVISON                                         JUN 12 1981

     B-203632


     The Honorable John N. Erlenborn                        I
     Ranking Minority Member                          1
     Subcommittee on Labor Standards                     158
     Committee on Education and Labor                    115783
     House of Representatives

     Dear Mr. Erlenborn:

          Subject: Literim Report on Issues Related to the Long-
                     shoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Actj
                     (HRD-81-107)

          In January 1980, you and the former Subcommittee Chairman
     asked us to (1) evaluate the effects of the 1972 amendments to
     the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA)
     (33 U.S.C. 901) and (2) review the Department of Labor's admin-
     istration of this act. On June 1, 1981, you requested a status
     report on our review; this report discusses our preliminary
     findings.

          We found that the 1972 amendments to the LHWCA:

          --Increased the number of compensation claims, thereby ad-
             versely affecting Labor's ability to carry out its respon-
             sibilities for overseeing, monitoring, and adjudicating
             these claims.

           --Established compensation rates which, when combined with
             monetary benefits from other programs, equal or exceed
             preinjury take-home pay in some cases.

           --Extended coverage to maritime employees who work in
             areas adjoining navigable waters; definitions of which
             have undergone and are expected to continue to undergo
             further modification.

           --Clarified the limits of an employer's future liability in
             a second injury case 1/ by providing for the eventual pay-



      1/A case in which an employee with an existing permanent partial
        disability suffers another injury.
                                                           (201631)

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