17.307: Coal Mine Workers' Compensation
Alternate Name: Black Lung
Overview
Program Number
17.307
Status
Active
Last Modified
Aug. 12, 2022
Date Posted
Aug. 12, 2022
Objective
To provide benefits to coal miners who have become totally disabled due to coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), and to widows and other surviving dependents of miners who have died of this disease.
Type of Assistance
D - Direct Payments with Unrestricted Use
Applicant Eligibility
The miner (including some workers involved in coal transportation in and around mines and coal mine construction workers) must have worked in the Nation's coal mines or a coal preparation facility and become totally disabled (as defined in the Act) from pneumoconiosis. The applicant may be able to work in areas other than coal mines and still be eligible for benefits. Benefits to miner shall be reduced on account of excess earnings as determined under sections 203(b) through (1) of the Social Security Act for claims filed on or after January 1, 1982. Widows and other surviving dependents of coal miners whose death resulted from coal workers' pneumoconiosis are also eligible for benefits with earnings offsets applicable to certain classes of dependents. Applicants can reside anywhere in the world at the time they apply.
Beneficiary Eligibility
Disabled coal miners, widows, and other surviving dependents of the deceased.
Additional Information
Grant Awards
Coal Mine Workers' Compensation direct grants
Grant Opportunities