---identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s61.200"source: "ecfr"legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"title: "20 CFR § 61.200 - Entitlement to benefits."title_number: 20title_name: "Employees' Benefits"section_number: "61.200"section_name: "Entitlement to benefits."chapter_name: "OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"subchapter_number: "F"subchapter_name: "COMPENSATION FOR INJURY, DISABILITY, DEATH, OR ENEMY DETENTION OF EMPLOYEES OF CONTRACTORS WITH THE UNITED STATES"part_number: "61"part_name: "CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE WAR HAZARDS COMPENSATION ACT, AS AMENDED"positive_law: falsecurrency: "2026-03-24"last_updated: "2026-03-24"format_version: "1.1.0"generator: "[email protected]"authority: "1950 Reorg. Plan No. 19, sec. 1, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 1010, 64 Stat. 1271; 5 U.S.C. 8145, 8149; 42 U.S.C. 1704, 1706; Secretary's Order 7-87, 52 FR 48466; Employment Standards Order 78-1, 43 FR 51469."regulatory_source: "53 FR 3679, Feb. 8, 1988, unless otherwise noted."cfr_part: "61"---
Identifier
/us/cfr/t20/s61.200
Currency
2026-03-24
Positive Law
No
Updated
2026-03-24
Chapter
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor
Authority
1950 Reorg. Plan No. 19, sec. 1, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 1010, 64 Stat. 1271; 5 U.S.C. 8145, 8149; 42 U.S.C. 1704, 1706; Secretary's Order 7-87, 52 FR 48466; Employment Standards Order 78-1, 43 FR ... 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 19, sec. 1, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 1010, 64 Stat. 1271; 5 U.S.C. 8145, 8149; 42 U.S.C. 1704, 1706; Secretary's Order 7-87, 52 FR 48466; Employment Standards Order 78-1, 43 FR 51469.
# 61.200 Entitlement to benefits.(a) Compensation under section 101(a) of the Act is payable for injury or death due to a war-risk hazard of an employee listed in § 61.1(a), whether or not the person was engaged in the course of his or her employment at the time of the injury.(b) Compensation under this subpart is paid under the provisions of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 8101 *et seq.*), except that the determination of beneficiaries and the computation of compensation are made in accordance with sections 6, 8, 9, and 10 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 *et seq.*).(c) The Office may not approve a claim for compensation if any of the following conditions are met:(1) The employee resides at or in the vicinity of the place of employment, does not live there solely due to the exigencies of the employment, and is injured outside the course of the employment.(2) The claim is filed due to the injury or death of a prisoner of war detained or utilized by the United States.(3) The person seeking benefits recovers or receives workers' compensation benefits from any other source for the same injury or death.(4) The person seeking benefits is a national of a foreign country and is entitled to compensation benefits from that or any other foreign country on account of the same injury or death.(5) The employee is convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction of any subversive act against the United States or any of its allies.