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Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program

Program Information

Popular name

(PSOB)

Program Number

16.571

Program objective

To provide death benefits to the eligible survivors of federal, state, or local public safety officers whose deaths are the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty. Effective November 29, 1990, the Act also provides the same benefit to a public safety officer who has been permanently and totally disabled as the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty. Objective(s): • To provide death benefits to the eligible survivors of public safety officers whose deaths are the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty. • To provide disability benefits to public safety officers who have been permanently and totally disabled as the direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the line of duty. Performance Measure 1: Number of death and disability claims determined Performance Measure 2: Number of death and disability claims filed.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

For specific information pertaining to the regulations, guidelines and literature, please visit the OJP BJA PSOB website at https://www.psob.gov/index.html

  1. Public Safety Officers' Benefits Act of 1976, codified at 34 U.S.C. §§ 10281 – 10288 (as reclassified effective September 1, 2017), formerly classified to sections 3796 – 3796c-3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
  2. Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2023. Pub. L. 117, 328.

Program details

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Individual/Family

Additional resources