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(Payment of Dle,.k Jag Benefit, to Widows who also Receive State
Vorkmen's Coupensu.ion Payments]. RBD-78-157; B-15031(4),
Septeiber 6 1978. 4 pp.
Report to Rep. Carl D. Perkins, Chairman, Rouse Committee un
Education and Labor; Sen. Harrison A. Williar4, Jr., Senate
Coimmittee on Human Resources; by Bluer D. Steats, Comptroller
Geueral.
Issue Area: Federally Sponsored ox Arsioted income Security
Programs: Payment Processes, Procedurase and Systems (1309).
Contartt Human Resources Div.
Budget Function: Incoss Sec-atity: Public Assisteance a-d Other
income Supplements (604).
Organization Concerned: Department of ealth, Education, and
Vefare; Department of Labor* Social Security
Admnistration.
Congre-sional Relevance: House Committee on docatiaou and Labor;
Senate Committee on Hunan Recurces. Re;. Carl D. Perkins;
Sen. Harrison A. Eilliams, Jr.
Authority: Federal Coal Dine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as
av'-ded (30 U.S.C. 801). Black Lung Benefits Reform Act of
1977 V.L. 95-239).
An exapination was conducted o the black lung inaefits
the Social Security Administradion; the Department of aealt,
ducationj and Velfare; and the Department of Labor paid to
miners and eligible survivors of minors who also xeceived State
workmen's compensation pnyments. Daring day 1978# Social
Security paid $33.6 million in black lung benefits -a 145,251
widows and their dependents, and the Depart.ment of Labor paid
$216,000 to 933 widows and their dependents. In Ponnsylvania and
Kentucky, uheie the eim-lnattjn vex performed, most of the
workmen's compensation awards to Ainers were for disability due
to pneuboconiosis. None of thi LW nwfits Social Security paid to
widows of miners in Pennsylvan.a and Kentucky was rwdaced when
they received State worknenOs ce.pensation payments; this was
because Sccial Security consitA-ed the State payments as death
benefits. In contrast, the Department of Labor routimely reduces
black lung benefits to widows when they receive State worknent
compensation because of their husbandls deaths. The Federal Coal
Dire Health and Safety Act of 1969 should be amended so that
comparable treatment will be provided to udowu receiving
benefits from 7tatc workmen's compensation because of their
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