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(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.
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