Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Federal Workers' Compensation
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGP02 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Working Conditions and Workplace Relations
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Federal Workers’ Compensation Service (FWCS) is responsible for administering the Government Employee Compensation Act (GECA). The Act provides for compensation for medical expenses and treatments, and wage replacement for federal government employees with workplace injuries and occupational illnesses. The provincial workers’ compensation boards (WCBs) are responsible for the claims of federal government employees. The WCBs decide on federal workers’ compensation claims, provide benefits and services such as medical expense payments and wage replacement, and support employees’ return to work. WCBs charge the Labour Program for claim-related costs plus administration fees and the Labour Program recovers these costs from employers.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Workers' Compensation | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $211M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Spending $21.3M, against $33.8M in 2019-20 (−37%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $41.5M, against $21.3M in 2020-21 (+94%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Spending $22M, against $32.4M in 2022-23 (−32%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $37.2M, against $24.5M in 2024-25 (+52%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 85% | 2019 | 100% The percentage of claims stamped as being received by the Labour Program were all forwarded to Workers’ Compensation Boards within the indicator of 15 days. A review of the current indicator and target will be conducted in order to better reflect the operational reality within the Federal Workers’ Compensation Services. | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 85% | 2020 | 98% Increased monitoring and tightened tracking procedures of claims received have contributed to this result. | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 90% | 2021 | 98% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 90% | 2022 | 98.3% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 90% | 2023 | 97.4% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 90% | 2024 | 81.5% Only 11 out of the 21 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) positions available in the Claims Operations Unit were staffed for most of the fiscal year. Fewer resources for claims processing means processing at a slower rate. | Not met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 85% | 2025 | 88% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 90% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $48.9M | $35.3M |
| 2019-20 | $48.9M | $33.8M |
| 2020-21 | $48.9M | $21.3M |
| 2021-22 | $36.6M | $41.5M |
| 2022-23 | $36.5M | $32.4M |
| 2023-24 | $36.5M | $22M |
| 2024-25 | $37.1M | $24.5M |
| 2025-26 | $37.2M | — |
| 2026-27 | $36.9M | — |
| 2027-28 | $36.9M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $36.9M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 62 | 45 |
| 2019-20 | 62 | 54 |
| 2020-21 | 62 | 60 |
| 2021-22 | 62 | 76 |
| 2022-23 | 62 | 85 |
| 2023-24 | 62 | 67 |
| 2024-25 | 62 | 70 |
| 2025-26 | 62 | — |
| 2026-27 | 59 | — |
| 2027-28 | 59* | — |
| 2028-29 | 59* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $48,931,661 | $48,931,661 | $48,931,661 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $48,935,256 | $48,935,256 | $48,935,256 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $48,917,280 | $48,917,280 | $48,917,280 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $36,591,841 | $36,594,075 | $36,594,075 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $36,504,747 | $36,504,747 | $36,504,747 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $36,509,736 | $36,509,736 | $36,509,736 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $37,072,751 | $37,090,052 | $37,064,015 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $37,155,129 | $37,128,808 | $37,128,808 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $36,936,444 | $36,927,210 | $36,913,362 | ||||||||
| Actual | $35,311,576 | $33,778,652 | $21,329,788 | $41,450,995 | $32,422,494 | $21,993,258 | $24,520,366 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
