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Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-110

§8192 Benefits

Title 5 › 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 › § 8192

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Labor must pay eligible officers benefits like the ones they would get under the federal workers’ compensation rules if they had been federal employees when hurt. If the officer already got similar state or local benefits, the federal payment can be reduced to account for those. If the officer paid into a state or local disability fund, the reduction can only be the portion of the state/local benefit that matches the share the government paid toward that coverage. If an eligible officer dies, the Secretary must pay survivors the difference between the federal survivor benefit they would get and any similar survivor benefits they got from the officer’s actual job. The same rule about limited reductions applies if the officer contributed to a state or local survivor fund.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §8192

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(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.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

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Citation

5 U.S.C. § 8192

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110