Federal Workers’ Compensation Integrity and Care Act

Current understanding

HR8822, the Federal Workers’ Compensation Integrity and Care Act, would amend the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) program to strengthen program integrity, oversight, and care standards for injured federal workers. For workers, the bill aims to improve care and claims handling; for federal agencies and the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, it would tighten integrity controls and reporting. Status: introduced in the 119th Congress; ordered reported as amended by the House committee on a unanimous 32-0 vote.

Evidence log

• 2026-07-22 — FECA Modernization and Cost Containment Act of 2026: cross-connection with feca-modernization-cost-containment-act-2026: Both proposals target the FECA program administered by DOL/OWCP — one focused on program integrity and care, the other on modernization and cost containment; together they signal parallel legislative pressure on federal workers’ compensation. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-07-22 — First Responder Fair RETIRE Act: cross-connection with first-responder-fair-retire-act: Fair RETIRE interacts with federal workers’ compensation pathways by letting duty-injured first responders retain retirement accrual instead of exiting to disability status. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-23 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act: Quality Standards for Hearing Loss Testing: OWCP’s parallel RFI on updating LHWCA hearing loss testing quality standards (potentially adding ABR, ASSR, and OAE to traditional audiograms) reflects broader administrative attention to OWCP-administered program integrity and claims evaluation quality alongside the FECA-focused HR8822. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-29 — To amend the War Hazards Compensation Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act to require that the Federal Government pay interest on late reimbursements, and for other purposes.: Companion reform effort HR9520 (119th Congress) targets a separate OWCP-administered program — WHCA/LHWCA — by requiring the federal government to pay interest on late reimbursements, reflecting broader legislative attention to federal workers’ compensation program integrity. (novelty: 2)

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