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more than one year prior to the effective date, although the death may have occurred less
than a year before the effective date.
(3) Where a schedule award is being paid and the claimant had no disability for work
prior to the date of maximum medical improvement, the one-year waiting period begins on
the starting date of the award. This date represents the claimant's first entitlement to
compensation, even though the effective date of the pay rate (date of injury) is earlier.
(4) CPI adjustments are rounded in disability cases to the nearest dollar on a
four-weekly basis, and in death cases to the nearest dollar on a monthly basis.
(5) When the compensation rate changes (e.g., from 75 to 66 2/3 percent), the CPIs
must be recomputed entirely.
b. Inclusions and Exclusions.
(1) Entitlement to CPI increases extends to: emergency relief workers (CCC, WPA, CWA,
FH and ERA); Reserve Officers Training Corps cadets (ROTC); Civil Air Patrol volunteers
(CAP); maritime workers (R); civilian war benefits workers (CWB); Peace Corps Volunteers
and Volunteer Leaders; VISTA Volunteers; Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees; and Job
Corps enrollees.
(2) Entitlement to CPI increases does not include military reservists or their survivors
and members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Periodic increases under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Act are applied to Enemy
Action (EA) and War Hazard (WH) cases each October 1.
c. Application. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980, which amended Section 5 U.S.C.
8146a, provided that compensation payable on account of injury or death which occurred more
than one year before March 1 of each year shall be increased each year on that date by the
amount determined to represent the change in the price index published for December of the
preceding year over the price index published for December of the year before that, adjusted to
the nearest one-tenth of one percent.
The first cost-of-living increase based on this law, on March 1, 1981, extended from the last month
in which the price index resulted in an adjustment prior to enactment of the new legislation, which
was August 1980.
2-0901-13 (RESERVED)
13. (Reserved)
2-0901-14 Schedule Awards
14. Schedule Awards. This paragraph addresses computations of schedule awards. FECA PM 2-0808
addresses the loss or loss of use of schedule members and organs in detail, including many aspects of
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