OWCP's 2024 payment schedule for FECA claimants receiving periodic wage loss and schedule award payments is now posted. It can become confusing to understand what date the next payment is due from OWCP as they issue payments on a 28 day cycle, 13 times a year. Here is a link to the 2023 payment schedule:
If you are a long term FECA claimant, OWCP continues to make things harder, there remains a crisis of DFEC leadership failing to address the plummeting number of physicians willing to accept FECA benefits. Couple that with an emphasis on sending as many long term claimants for serial second opinion exams as possible means it is important for anyone trapped needing to receive ongoing benefits to consider hiring a representative to avoid interuption or loss of your benefits.