# Panama Canal Commission Benefits

**Agency:** Labor  
**Account:** Panama Canal Commission Benefits  
**Source document:** Special Benefits · p. 10  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/labor/panama-canal-commission-benefits  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2027 | request | 2.7 |

## Labor discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $10.30B, FY2026 $13.70B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

In FY 2026, DFEC will continue its program integrity efforts to reduce fraud by referring medical providers with suspicious billing activity to the DOL Office of Inspector General, and to lower improper payments through enhanced payment reviews and implementing IT updates that During FY 2025, DFEC continued its program integrity efforts to reduce fraud by referring medical providers with suspicious billing activity to the DOL Office of Inspector General, and to lower improper payments by implementing IT updates to the periodic entitlement review Legend: (r) Revised (e) Estimate (base) Baseline -- Not Applicable TBD - To Be Determined [p] - Projection Management of long-term disability cases under Periodic Roll Management is a performance priority for the FECA program. These injured federal workers have typically sustained more severe injuries with longer recovery periods and have permanent impairments that require long- term monitoring. In FY 2027, the program expects approximately 36,000 workers to receive Monitoring and Management of Pharmaceutical Costs The FECA program has reduced annual total pharmacy spend from $436.6 million in FY 2016 to $39.7 million in FY 2025, a 90% reduction. Annual pharmacy transactions have been reduced The FECA program will continue to build upon these successes to improve patient safety and reduce costs, waste, and abuse while identifying potential fraud and making appropriate referrals to the DOL Office of Inspector General for investigation and prosecution. 21.0 Travel and transportation of persons 770 23.3 Communications, utilities, and misc. 16 15 25.7 Operation and maint. of equipment 2,173 1,851 0 0 42.0 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 25


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