---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 726.109"
title: "20"
number: "726.109"
heading: "Increase in the amount of security."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/726.109"
---

# §726.109. Increase in the amount of security.

- (a) OWCP may, at its discretion, increase the amount of security a self-insurer is required to post whenever it determines that the amount of security on deposit is insufficient to secure 100 percent of the self-insurer's liability for payment of benefits and medical expenses under the Act. OWCP will provide a written explanation for the increase.
- (b) OWCP will not require an operator to post greater than 100 percent of its estimated liabilities, based on the information prompting the increase in security.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 89 FR 100318, Dec. 12, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 30 U.S.C. 901 et seq., 902(f), 925, 932, 933, 934, 936; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015)); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 80097, Dec. 20, 2000, unless otherwise noted.