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Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program Fact Sheet

NCJ Number
252929
Date Published
May 2019
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This report summarizes the benefits, claims process, appeals process, performance, and contact information for the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program (PSOB), which is administered by the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
Abstract
This fact sheet provides information about BJA's Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Program, which provides death, disability, and education benefits to the survivors of law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders whose death (or catastrophic injury) was the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty.

Date Published: May 1, 2019