The federal Office of Workers’ Compensation granted tens of thousands of dollars in death benefits to a Bay Area widow one day after NBC Bay Area investigation aired
The federal Office of Workers’ Compensation approved an East Bay widow’s claim for death benefits one day after an NBC Bay Area investigation revealed her year-long battle for benefits following the death of her husband, Sam.
The government had twice denied Larnie Macasieb’s petitions, but in a stunning reversal last week, the office approved her claim.
“Winning this is something that I know Sam has something to do with,” Macasieb said of her late husband. “He knows because I always dream of him. He was very happy and he hugs me and he tells me ‘I love you’ and I tell him ‘I love you too.’”
Macasieb’s husband died following a traumatic head injury he suffered during his shift at the Postal Processing and Distribution Center in West Oakland in August 2014.
More than a year after her husband’s death, the government has agreed to pay the widow a portion of her husband’s annual salary. The government first denied Macasieb’s claim in August 2014 and again in September, citing a lack of evidence proving how her husband was injured. Read more
I also had a problem with San Fran office back in 2011. It took a call to Washington DC office to have them straighten it out and tell Frisco that I was entitled to receive benefits and it came with back pay.