Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers'

What this funds

2026 Enacted level. Of these amounts: ' $11,861,000 and 47 FTE is requested for the Longshore Program in General Salaries & ' $2,177,000 and 5 FTE for the Longshore Program in Longshore Trust funding. At this level, with the objective of utilizing data as a strategic asset to improve Longshore Program effectiveness, oversight and transparency, the request includes continued funding to support the SWCF. This funding would allow the Program to maintain performance of ongoing longstanding financial compliance audits to hold all SWCF participants accountable for their fair share of the annual assessment by increasing financial recoveries, serve as a deterrent to under- reporting, and reduce additional costs to compliant employers who are left to make the SWCF whole. While the Longshore Program funds its operations from OWCP's Salaries and Expenses funding, management of the SWCF is supported by a direct transfer from the SWCF that is referred to as "Longshore Trust Funds." OWCP finances the SWCF by assessments on the carriers and self-insured employers who underwrite or perform Longshore-related work. The LHWCA authorizes the Secretary of Labor to utilize funds from the SWCF to ensure its solvency and financial strength (see Sections 44(d) and 44(i) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1984). For FY 2027, these activities (as well as vocational rehabilitation services in Sec 39(c) of the Act) will be supported by the direct transfer In FY 2026, the Longshore Program will professionally perform its important mission while ensuring efficient, timely, and quality operations and promoting accountability throughout the organization. The Program will enhance the services it provides by exploring the merger of key forms to reduce the administrative burden on stakeholders. DLHWC will be working towards developing new system capabilities through OWCP's IT Modernization initiative which will automate tasks, reduce workloads, eliminate data entry errors, decrease mailing costs, and improve the timely service of orders.

Extracted from Federal Programs for Workers' Compensation, p. 9. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Contracts funded by this line

1 linked contract. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Confidence mix · 1 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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