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Audit of COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on OWCP Claims Processing and Adjudication

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A memorandum dated May 7, 2020 from Elliot P. Lewis, Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, to Julia Hearthway, Director of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs. It announces an audit of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs' response to the COVID-19 pandemic, reviewing the pandemic's impact on claims processing and adjudication and the guidance issued to address challenges posed to program claimants. The office asks for an entrance conference the week of May 11, 2020. It names Stephen Sovich, Acting Audit Director, as the contact and copies division directors including Rachel Pond, Antonio Rios and Michael A. Chance.

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U.S. Department of Labor           Office of Inspector General
                                   Washington, D.C. 20210




May 7, 2020



MEMORANDUM FOR:            JULIA HEARTHWAY
                           Director
                           Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs




FROM:                      ELLIOT P. LEWIS
                           Assistant Inspector General
                            for Audit

SUBJECT:                   Audit of COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on OWCP
                           Claims Processing and Adjudication

Please be advised the Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit of the
Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’ (OWCP) response to the COVID-19
pandemic. Specifically, we will review the pandemic’s impact on claims
processing and adjudication and the guidance issued to address challenges
posed by COVID-19 to program claimants.

We will contact your audit liaison to schedule an entrance conference to discuss
the audit’s objective, scope, and methodology. Due to the urgency of this work,
we would like to have an entrance conference the week of May 11, 2020, and
plan to begin work immediately after the entrance conference. We would
appreciate your notifying appropriate agency officials of our plans.

If you have any questions, please contact Stephen Sovich, Acting Audit Director,
at (215) 446-3723.

cc:   Rachel Pond, Director, Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness
      Compensation
      Antonio Rios, Director, Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation
      Michael A. Chance, Director, Division of Coal Mine Workers'
      Compensation
      Jatin Wahi, Audit Liaison, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

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