A little item of how the Ohio BWC (re:coingate) spend their time:

[salin]

Couple Surprised by BWC Claim

A worker's compensation case that was almost half a century old had a retired couple in trouble.

After Bureau of Worker’s Compensation investment losses totaling millions of dollars and the ensuing scandal which rocked Ohio's Republican party, Edith and James Snyder wondered why they were seemingly singled out by the state this week.

Eighty-one-year-old James Edith received a letter from the Attorney Generals office saying he owed 19-thousand dollars. The Snyder’s learned it was from a workers comp claim from a farm hand who worked for James 43 years ago.

http://www.10tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3708190

That's right - forget about trying to help injured workers today - put folks on trying to recoup claims that are nearly fifty years old. Maybe that way the reported 300 million lost in the bwc funds - due to privatization of "fund managers" (and operators of political slush funds and get rich for cronies) - can be made up - through collecting every old claim from the last half century... so what if it puts manpower away from the actual business of the department... you know - the injured workers....

[GOPisEvil]

1. Wow...I work for an agency that recovers funds, too.

Our statute of limitations is 6 years. 43 years? Goodness...I feel bad for the poor employee that had to deal with that. You KNOW he or she tried to get out of it, but was told that every dollar counts or some such crap...

[salin]

2. but the agency's primary role isn't recovery of funds -

it is about compensation for injured workers - and determining who is and isn't qualified. There have been recent stories of battles between the bwc and health providers per overcharging. Then there is the whole pay to play scandal - all that going on - I can't believe that someone directed human resource time (as in wokers, not as in hr dept) to this sort of effort. Just shows what a screwed up organization this is.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Agreed.

To spend time on such old things as this undermines the agency's ability to carry out it's daily primary function. Another reason these GOP idiots have to go. :)