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State Fund supports California’s entrepreneurial spirit and plays a stabilizing role in the economy by providing fairly priced workers’ compensation insurance, making California workplaces safe, and restoring injured workers.
This guidebook gives an overview of the California workers’ compensation system. It is meant to help workers with job injuries understand their basic legal rights, the steps to take to request workers’ compensation benefits, and where to seek further information and help if necessary.
We provide dependable workers’ compensation coverage to California employers, both large and small, and direct medical treatment and indemnity benefits to California’s injured workers.
A workers' compensation insurance policy provides covered employees with medical and wage replacement (indemnity) benefits that arise from workplace injuries. Only workplace injuries that arise out of and in the normal course of business are compensable.
All 24 Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) offices throughout the state provide information and assistance on rights, benefits, and obligations under California’s workers’compensation laws.
19 kwi 2024 · FECA covers employees of most federal agencies, such as the IRS, FBI, or U.S. Postal Service. In addition to full-time and part-time employees, probationary, temporary, and seasonal workers are also eligible for benefits. FECA does not cover employees who work for most private companies that contract to provide services to the federal government.
Individuals injured on the job while employed by private companies or state and local government agencies should contact their state workers' compensation board. The Department of Labor has several programs designed to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses.
