Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program

Program goal(s) name: Death, disability, and education benefits for eligible public safety officers
Program goal(s) description: Provide death and education benefits to survivors of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders, and disability benefits to officers catastrophically injured in the line of duty.
Program objective(s) name: Process claims and provide death, disability, and education benefits for eligible public safety officers and survivors.
Program objective(s) description: 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.

All final award decisions will be made by the Assistant Attorney General, unless a statute explicitly authorizes award decisions by another official or there is written delegation of authority to another official. For successful applicants, JustGrants will send a system-generated email to the Application Submitter, Authorized Representative, and Entity Administrator with information on accessing their official award package in JustGrants. The award package will include key information (such as funding amount and period of performance) as well as award conditions that must be followed. The Authorized Representative for the entity should accept or decline the award within 45 days of the notification.

The review procedure for applications is specified in the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and generally includes eligibility and responsiveness, merit, programmatic, budget, and risk reviews.