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HRD-82-26 1 (1982-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcuv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Legislation Authorized Benefits Without Adequate Evidence Of Black Lung Or Disability The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, as amended, authorized the Department of Labor to approve black lung claims based on conflicting or inconclusive medical evidence, affidavits from spouses and others, or pre- sumptions based on years of coal mine em- ployment. GAO believes that medical evidence should be the basis for determining disability and death from black lung and that benefits should be awarded only to miners who are totally disabled by black lung or to their sur- vivors. This report (1) suggests that the Con- gress consider amending the black lung legis- lation and (2) recommends that Labor pro- vide more guidance on the evidence needed to rebut certain legislative presumptions and establish additional procedures for resolving conflicting medical evidence. Legislation passed by the Congress in Decem- ber 1981 should resolve a number of GAO's concerns and result in better evidence to sup- port approval of future black lung benefit claims. #4,D ST,'t HR D-82-26 CCOU~% JANUARY 19, 1982 d2/c 77 -

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