{"id":2468,"date":"2011-07-14T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:15:02","slug":"gao-says-abuse-of-benefits-by-federal-employees-can-be-reported-anonymously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/07\/14\/gao-says-abuse-of-benefits-by-federal-employees-can-be-reported-anonymously\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO Says Abuse of Benefits by Federal Employees Can Be Reported Anonymously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GAO-News.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2469\" title=\"GAO News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GAO-News-150x150.gif\" alt=\"GAO News\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BELIEVE YOU&#8217;VE SEEN EVIDENCE OF WORKERS&#8217; COMPENSATION FRAUD? CONTACT GAO<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Abuse of benefits by federal employees can be reported anonymously<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; July 14, 2011<br \/>\nPEN Reports<\/p>\n<p>They GAO says they are investigating fraud and abuse in the Federal Workers&#8217; Compensation Act (FECA) program and are specifically looking for information regarding cases in which federal employees are currently abusing workers compensation benefits.<\/p>\n<p>As an example the GAO says &#8220;&#8230;fraud schemes might include a beneficiary working a second job, overstating their workers&#8217; compensation claim, or collecting benefits for a deceased individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are aware of fraud or abuse in the FECA program by a federal employee you are encouraged to contact the GAO at:<\/p>\n<p>workerscompfraud@gao.gov<\/p>\n<p>The GAO states &#8220;All information about individuals who contact us will be kept confidential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For media inquiries about this announcement, contact Chuck Young, Managing Director of Public Affairs, at 202-512-4800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELIEVE YOU&#8217;VE SEEN EVIDENCE OF WORKERS&#8217; COMPENSATION FRAUD? CONTACT GAO Abuse of benefits by federal employees can be reported anonymously WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; July 14, 2011 PEN Reports They GAO says they are investigating fraud and abuse in the Federal Workers&#8217; Compensation Act (FECA) program and are specifically looking for information regarding cases in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}