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[CITE: 5USC8192]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
               CHAPTER 81--COMPENSATION FOR WORK INJURIES
 
  SUBCHAPTER III--LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS NOT EMPLOYED BY THE UNITED 
                                 STATES
 
Sec. 8192. Benefits

    (a) Benefits in Event of Injury.--The Secretary of Labor shall 
furnish to any eligible officer the benefits to which he would have been 
entitled under subchapter I of this chapter if, on the occasion giving 
rise to his eligibility, he had been an employee as defined in section 
8101(1) engaged in the performance of his duty, reduced or adjusted as 
the Secretary of Labor in his discretion may deem appropriate to reflect 
comparable benefits, if any, received by the officer (or which he would 
have been entitled to receive but for this subchapter) by virtue of his 
actual employment on that occasion. When an enforcement officer has 
contributed to a disability compensation fund, the reduction of Federal 
benefits provided for in this subsection is to be limited to the amount 
of the State or local government benefits which bears the same 
proportion to the full amount of such benefits as the cost or 
contribution paid by the State or local government bears to the cost of 
disability coverage for the individual officer.
    (b) Benefits in Event of Death.--The Secretary of Labor shall pay to 
any survivor of an eligible officer the difference, as determined by the 
Secretary in his discretion, between the benefits to which that survivor 
would be entitled if the officer had been an employee as defined in 
section 8101(1) engaged in the performance of his duty on the occasion 
giving rise to his eligibility, and the comparable benefits, if any, 
received by the survivor (or which that survivor would have been 
entitled to receive but for this subchapter) by virtue of the officer's 
actual employment on that occasion. When an enforcement officer has 
contributed to a survivor's benefit fund, the reduction of Federal 
benefits provided for in this subsection is to be limited to the amount 
of the State or local government benefits which bears the same 
proportion to the full amount of such benefits as the cost or 
contribution paid by the State or local government bears to the cost of 
survivor's benefits coverage for the individual officer.

(Added Pub. L. 90-291, Sec. 1(a), Apr. 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 99.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective only with respect to personal injuries sustained 
on or after Apr. 19, 1968, see section 2 of Pub. L. 90-291, set out as a 
note under section 8191 of this title.
