---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 10.503"
title: "20"
number: "10.503"
heading: "Under what circumstances may OWCP reduce or terminate compensation benefits?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/10.503"
---

# §10.503. Under what circumstances may OWCP reduce or terminate compensation benefits?


Once OWCP has advised the employee that it has accepted a claim and has either approved continuation of pay or paid medical benefits or compensation, benefits will not be terminated or reduced unless the weight of the evidence establishes that:

- (a) The disability for which compensation was paid has ceased;
- (b) The disabling condition is no longer causally related to the employment;
- (c) The employee is only partially disabled;
- (d) The employee has returned to work;
- (e) The beneficiary was convicted of fraud in connection with a claim under the FECA, or the beneficiary was incarcerated based on any felony conviction; or
- (f) **OWCP's initial decision was in error.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 8102a, 8103, 8145 and 8149; 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 3717; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary of Labor's Order No. 10-2009, 74 FR 218; Pub. L. 117-263.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 37903, June 28, 2011, unless otherwise noted.