Public Safety Officers Benefits Psob Program PDF Download

Since its inception in 1976, the PSOB program has been expanded to provide disability benefits to public safety officers disabled by an injury suffered in the line of duty and education benefits to the spouses and children of public safety officers killed or disabled in the line of duty. [...] PSOB Death Benefit The PSOB program provides a death benefit to eligible survivors (i.e., the spouse, eligible children,10 the beneficiary of an officer's life insurance policy, or an officer's parents) of a public safety officer whose death is the direct and proximate result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty or certain work-related heart attacks or strokes.11 To receive a death [...] The amount paid to the officer's survivors is the amount authorized to be paid on the date that the officer died, not the amount authorized to be paid on the date that the claim is approved.14 For deaths occurring after October 1, 2009, the benefit is $311,810.15 (. continued) 8 A "chaplain" is defined as any individual serving as an officially recognized or designated member of a legally organize [...] The Director of BJA has directed the PSOB Office not to require claimants to submit medical history records unless something in the claim affirmatively suggests that something other than the line of duty caused the fatal heart attack or stroke, or that it was more likely than not that the heart attack or stroke was imminent.25 In cases where the PSOB Office requests medical records, the PSOB Offic [...] Congressional Research Service 4 Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Program policy, claimants were required to submit 10 years of medical records to verify that the officer died from a heart attack or stroke caused by the line of duty.27 The Director of BJA has also instructed the PSOB Office with regard to the application of the term "non-routine" activity.