Information collected with this form
is used to evaluate the financial profile of OWCP beneficiaries who
have been overpaid benefits, and their ability to repay. OWCP
beneficiaries are typically retired coal miners disabled by black
lung disease, Federal employees injured on the job, and their
survivors.
US Code:
5
USC 923(b) Name of Law: Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
of 1969
US Code: 42
USC 7385j-2 Name of Law: Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety
Act
US Code: 5
USC 8129(b) Name of Law: Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety
Act
There was no change to the
burden hours to the Black Lung related to instances where benefits
checks were issued after a beneficiary’s death and prior to receipt
of notification of the death by the BL program. Under Treasury
procedures with post mortem overpayments, repayment of the debt is
not the burden of the person that received a descendant’s benefits.
The burden is on the bank that improperly failed to close the
account and paid out the money. Rather than using the OWCP-20 form
that a claimant debtor would complete, these overpayments are
recovered by using a protected need-to-know Department of the
Treasury web site service to collect from the liable bank. This
service is currently called by Treasury PACER for Payment and
Claims Enhanced Reconciliation and is commonly referred to as POL
for PACER-On-Line. There has been no change in the annual
responses. FOR DFEC. The number of newly identifiable overpayments
has decreased over the last few years. We attribute this decrease
to enhanced computer system to monitor employees return to work and
terminating benefits effective the next periodic roll cycle instead
in the middle of a periodic roll cycle, which could create an
overpayment. Consequently, these factors contributed to the
reduction in burden hours and costs associated with the requirement
to complete this form associated with declaring an overpayment in
compensation.
$81,561
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Uncollected
Yoon Ferguson 202 693-0701
ferguson.yoon@dol.gov
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
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