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Energy Workers
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Part B provides lump-sum monetary payments and medical benefits to covered employees and, where applicable, to survivors of such employees, of the Department of Energy (DOE), its predecessor agencies and certain of its vendors, contractors and subcontractors. Part B also provides lump-sum payments and medical benefits to individuals found eligible by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under section 5 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and, where applicable, to their survivors. Part E of the Act provides variable lump-sum payments (based on a worker's permanent impairment and/or calendar years of qualifying wage-loss) and medical benefits for covered DOE contractor employees and, where applicable, provides variable lump-sum payments to survivors of such employees (based on a worker's death due to a covered illness and percentage of wages lost in a given year. Part E also provides these same payments and benefits to uranium miners, millers and ore transporters covered by section 5 of RECA and, where applicable, to survivors of such employees.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
The average number of days between filing date and final decision for cases not sent to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health when a hearing was not held was reduced from 167 days in FY 2016 to 161 days in FY 2020, exceeding the FY 2020 target of 170 days.
In FY 2021, the Energy program paid $1.725B compensation and medical benefits to 17,783 claimants.
The Energy program paid compensation and benefit payments to 18,585 beneficiaries in fiscal year 2022. Importantly, the Energy program’s Resource Centers returned to normal operations in fiscal year 2022 following temporary COVID-19 restrictions. The Energy program also played a leading role in forming an Interagency Collaboration Group Supporting Members of Native American Nations and Tribes to help coordinate information and best practice sharing among federal agencies and departments who provide direct services to Native American claimants and communities.
The Energy program delivered $2.2 billion in compensation and medical benefits, including new claims, new consequential conditions, and increased medical services in fiscal year 2023.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
