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How do you rate their "service"?      ALL are welcome.  If you are an injured federal worker, please make your voice heard here.  This information is to document the nationwide failure of the OWCP system for federal workers and press for reform. See more on this survey at bottom of this page.  Please check only those items that apply in your individual claim(s) and give details on those items in the text box at the bottom. These items apply only to your work-related medical condition or conditions, whether accepted claims or not.       Do NOT submit this information to us more than once.  You can communicate with Congress anytime you wish, but pleast do NOT send this to a Congressman or anyone else.  This is our own form to compile and categorize the problems claimants face, and we send the whole compliation periodically to Congressional representatives.  The results are compiled and provided to members periodically as statistical data (without identifying information)      This is YOUR voice in Congress.  This is NOT our membership form-- click HERE to join FedupFeds and take part in our interactive mailing list for information & mutual support.

General claim problems 1.   Did you or do you have trouble getting the needed claim forms at work? 2.   Have you experienced intimidation or retaliation at work (made an example)? 3.   Did your agency mishandle your claim or falsify information against your claim? 4.   Have you experienced serious interruption of income? 5.   Have you lost family assets or credit rating in the process? 6.   Have you had another work-related condition with no claim filed for it? 7.   Has your claim(s) been denied and later approved by OWCP? 8.   Do you have another claim (resulting from first condition) denied by OWCP? 9.   Have you found it difficult to get a copy of your case file? 10. Have you had a rehab nurse tell a doctor to return you to work? 11. Have you found it difficult to deal with the red tape in OWCP? 12. Has OWCP been confusing about what was needed to approve your claim? 13. Have you found it difficult to get OWCP to communicate with you? 14. Have you found it difficult or impossible to use a lawyer? 15. Have you been fired or separated due to your medical condition? 16. If you knew what you know now, would you avoid federal work?    Medical treatment problems 17. Has your medical care been interrupted or treatment delayed? 18. Have you had a condition worsen due to treatment delay? 19. Has a condition been aggravated because of return to work? 20. Have you found doctors reluctant to take OWCP claims? 21. Have you had trouble getting medical treatment paid for? 22. Have you been sent to multiple second opinions? 23. Has a second opinion doctor done a sloppy exam or no exam at all? 24. Have you had another condition develop from the original injury? Your email address Last name First name Street/p.o.box City State Zip Agency         Click on the box area below to type in details on problems checked above. Use numbers to refer to questions above. That area will scroll as needed for more space. Please use upper-lower case, not all caps. When you're finished, click Submit button below to send it to FedupFeds.      FedupFeds is using this survey to document the need for Congress to order an independent, comprehensive "customer service" survey to get the input of injured claimants themselves.  We want Congress to order such a survey. That in turn will give us the official documentation to press for (A) reforms of OWCP across the board, for (B)  ethical standards enforcement in claims handling, and for (C) the right to use the courts and attorneys to enforce the laws.       Previous GAO and IG reports have been seriously flawed by not getting real input from injured workers themselves.  Over the last six months, we have developed the questions on this survey by studying hundreds of online applications to FedupFeds, mailing list comments, and private communications.      In hearings they get plenty of vague, unfocused complaints which they cannot remedy individually or as a group.  But OUR purpose is to show the patterns in OWCP injury claim problems, and demonstrate the need for specific legislative reforms in the FECA to correct those problem patterns.  Specific legislative proposals are a work in progress.       Our Director testified at the Long Beach hearing July 1998 and put many members reports into the hearing record itself.  She was in fact, the only director of any injured workers organization who was invited and who took the trouble to be there and speak for injured workers nationwide across a wide range of federal agencies.   Unions were invited but declined.

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