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Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program

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The Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) provides a death benefit to the eligible survivors of Federal, state or local public safety officers whose death was the direct and proximate result of a personal (traumatic) injury sustained in the line of duty (certain fatal, line of duty heart attacks and strokes are also covered). The act also provides a disability benefit to eligible public safety officers who have been permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic personal injury sustained in the line of duty. The injury must permanently prevent the officer from performing any gainful work.

The Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) provides a death benefit to the eligible survivors of Federal, state or local public safety officers whose death was the direct and proximate result of a personal (traumatic) injury sustained in the line of duty (certain fatal, line of duty heart attacks and strokes are also covered). The act also provides a disability benefit to eligible public safety officers who have been permanently and totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic personal injury sustained in the line of duty. The injury must permanently prevent the officer from performing any gainful work.

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Eligible beneficiaries for PSOB purposes, in this order, are as follows:

  • Spouses; children; designated PSOB beneficiaries on file with the agency at the time of the officer's death; or surviving parents.

Eligible children include any of the following:

  • Biological natural
  • Out-of-wedlock
  • Adopted or posthumous child
  • Stepchild who is 18 years old or younger.

Children between the ages of 19 and 22 may be eligible if a full-time student at the time of the officer's death, and children over 18 who are incapable of self-support at the time of the officer's death due to a disability.

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For information on applying for disability or death benefits, visit the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Public Safety Officers' Benefits Programs homepage.


You may find information on filing a PSOB claim and claim forms on PSOB's homepage.

For more information, please call:
1-888-744-6513

Or:
202-307-0635

Mail:
PSOB Office
Bureau of Justice Assistance
810 7th Street NW.
Washington, DC 20531

Email:
AskPSOB@usdoj.gov