To the original poster.
1. Has anyone ever received a scheduled award for an ankle injury? Yes.The ankle is part of the leg and the leg is a scheduled award member/body part under the law.
2. Will you receive a scheduled award for yours? Possibly, but you have to be at maximum medical improvement (MMI) for an award to even be under consideration and it looks like you are a long way from MMI.
3, My advice for now is to not put the cart before the horse. Concentrate on what you need to do now to get the best possible recovery and do accept that it may be a long hard process. Once you learn that there is not much else that can be done and you still have residuals, then file fr that scheduled award at that point.
4. Finally, scheduled awards are based upon the "impairment" that remains. You are not going to get any money because you may not be able to participate in your son's athletic activities. It does not work that way. OWCP using the AMA Guides to Permanent Impairments to evaluate the percentage of impairment that exists. It will be based upon stuff such as range of motion. muscle atrophy, if any and stuff like that.
To the poster who asked about annual leave. In the Post Office, the USPS often advances leave at the beginning of the leave year based upon the assumption that you will be working the entire year. Elsewhere in the Federal government, leave is genarally not credited to your account until you have earned it thru your service. In other words, depending upon your leave category, you accrue a certain number of leave hours every pay period.
Being on LWOP affects annual leave both ways. If you are Postal, you probably will see your advanced annual leave balance diluted for every biweekly pay period you are in a full LWOP status because the leave advance was based upon the assumption that you would be working and you are not. . If you are working part-time and LWOP part-time, your balance probably will not dilute as much, but there will be some effect on that advanced leave balance number. The thing to remember is the leave was "advanced" to you, even though you had not really earned it at the time of the advance. However, any annual leave that you carried over from the previous leave year would still be there.
If you are non-Postal, you will not accrue any annual leave for any pay period in which your total LWOP equals 80 hours. If you are working part-time, then you leave accrual is going to be prorated accordingly. However, whatever annual leave was there at the time you stopped working will still be there when you return to work or will be paid to you, if you have to leave Federal service (for any reason, including the work injury.
I hope this info helps.
Edited by user Monday, May 20, 2019 1:05:35 PM(UTC)
| Reason: clarity