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Death Benefits
The Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Act was signed into law in 1976, and it codified a means for the families of fallen law enforcement officers to file claims with the Department of Justice for financial assistance.
March 20, 2013
Patrol
Beretta's Project Allegiance Provides Officers Free $10,000 Death Benefits
Through its new Project Allegiance program, Beretta will offer active-duty law enforcement officers who purchase a Beretta Px4 Storm pistol a $10,000 line-of-duty death benefit valid for three years, at no cost to the officers and his or her family.
October 17, 2007
Patrol
Most Officer COVID-19 Deaths to be Eligible for Federal LODD Benefits
The President of the National Fraternal Order of PoliceâPatrick Yoesâtoday issued a statement lauding the determination that law enforcement and other public safety officers who file a death benefit claim through the Public Safety Officersâ Benefit (PSOB) program for a COVID-19 related death will be found by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to have contracted the disease in the line of duty in most cases.
April 10, 2020
Training
Virginia Police Recruit's Widow Denied Benefits
The widow of 40-year-old Norfolk (Va.) Police recruit John Kohn is not entitled to receive any death benefits, after her husband died during police training.
December 21, 2010
Patrol
Video: Mass. Denies Benefits To Police Widow
The widow of a Boston Police officer has been fighting the state for accidental death benefits for 13 years since her husband's death from Hepatitis C.
December 28, 2011
Patrol
NH Senate OKs Making Court Officers Eligible for Death Benefit
New Hampshire's court security officers who are killed in the line of duty would be eligible for the same death benefits as police officers and firefighters under a bill passed by the state Senate.
February 19, 2018
Patrol
N.D. Agency Reverses Denial of Death Benefit To Deputy's Widow
North Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance has reversed an earlier decision denying death benefits for the family of slain Burleigh County Sheriff's Deputy Bryan Sleeper.
October 31, 2011
Patrol
Boston Police Widow's Fight
The widow of a Boston Police officer has been fighting the state for accidental death benefits for 13 years since her husband's death from Hepatitis C.
December 28, 2011
Patrol
Police Survivors Group Says No Worries About Obama's Death-Benefit Cut
President Obama's proposed reduction of death benefits is "meaningless" and will not reduce the amount paid to survivors who lose their loved ones in the line of duty, according to a leading grief-support agency for law-enforcement families.
May 11, 2009
Patrol
NRA Launches Back Our Blue Initiative in Support of America's Police
"My brother gave his life protecting those who marched against him. That's why I Back Our Blue," Krol says in this video to support the campaign. Since 2000, the NRA has paid out about 3 million dollars in line of duty death benefits. More Here.
July 6, 2017
Weapons
C.O.P.S. to hold "The Traumas of Law Enforcement" Training Sessions
Concerns of Police Survivors will hold seven regional training sessions about trauma from the job in 2008. The focus of these training sessions is handling line-of-duty death, information on benefits for line-of-duty deaths, the traumatization of law enforcement officers, police suicide, and the issues of the injured officer.
November 26, 2007
Careers
Alleviating Line-of-Duty Trauma
Concerns of Police Survivors will offer several training sessions to help agencies better prepare for the trauma that follows a line-of-duty death. The sessions will also cover survivor benefits, police disability, police suicide, and helping affected co-workers.
December 19, 2011
Patrol
Senate Passes 6 Police-Related Bills Supported by FOP
âThe most impactful legislation for law enforcement officers and their families is H.R. 6943, the âPublic Safety Officer Support Act,â which recognizes that most public safety officer suicides are service-connected and may be considered a line of duty death for the purposes of the Public Safety Officersâ Benefits (PSOB) program,â National FOP President Patrick Yoes said.
August 2, 2022
Training
Proposed Bill Adds Campus Police Officers to DOJ's Benefits Program
Congressman Michael Capuono has filed a bill in honor of a slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) officer that would provide federal financial assistance to campus police injured in the line of duty.
June 5, 2013
Patrol
Senate Passes Bill to Pay LODD Benefits to Officers who Die of COVID-19
The measure removes the requirement that families of officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians do not have to prove that the first responder was infected while on the job as long as the person was diagnosed with COVID-45 within 45 days of his or her last shift.
May 15, 2020
Patrol
Family Will Get Disability Benefits in Ex-Phoenix Officer's PTSD Suicide
A police board on Wednesday approved disability benefits for the family of Craig Tiger, a former Phoenix officer whose suicide became a rallying cry for changes in how the department handles PTSD.
April 14, 2016
Patrol
Orlando Officer's Family Not Entitled to Same Benefits as Fallen Deputy
Two families of fallen Florida officers who died during the manhunt for accused killer Markeith Loyd will receive vastly different pension benefits because of a difference between state and city policy.
January 25, 2017
Training
Virginia Chief Involved In Recruit's Death Retires
City Manager Marcus Jones credited Chief Marquis with the ability to get things done, and added that he couldn't think outside his office. The city is now working out a severance package with the former chief.
February 23, 2011
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