Comments on: Are you smarter than a homeland security grants manager?

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By: Wevzhiof

Wevzhiof — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:26:56 +0000

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By: Marko Bourne

Marko Bourne — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:54:33 +0000

Beth: The PSOB program is seperately funded by Congress to the Department of Justice. The program is managed by the Office of Justice Programs. The PSOB office makes all the award determinations on who is eligible and who is not. The website is as follows: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/psob/psob_main.html
Federal emergency workers may be covered under this program but I’m not familiar with the details. I am aware that there are a number of ongoing disputes with federal relief workers as well as the state and local first responders and that litigation is ongoing on workers comp claims.

The preparedness grants listed above cannot be used in place or replace a death benefit or workman’s comp issues. They are seperate programs and its not lawful for the preparedness grants to be turned to that purpose. The only death benefit is the DOJ program above.

Hope this helps.

By: William R. Cumming

William R. Cumming — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:52:57 +0000

Beth! Hoping you have been involved in the WTC class action for responders for your deceased husbands efforts at WTC in 2001 and 2002.

By: Christopher Bellavita

Christopher Bellavita — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:10:28 +0000

Beth — I am not sure if this gets to your question, but you may find some of the information about who gets DHS grants at this website: http://www.dhs.gov/xgovt/grants/index.shtm

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:14:54 +0000

How can a WTC Federal Responder be ommitted, left off the WTC Catastrophic Fatality List? Can worker’s compensation and/or death compensation claim be ignored in order for a grant funding? Either or not both?

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:09:58 +0000

How can one find those awarded these DHS Federal Grants? Can a grant “replace” a death compensation benefit from possibly the Public Safety Officer Benefit (PSOB)? Is it true that Congress also appropriates the funding for these grants?

Thank you for this post -

By: William R. Cumming

William R. Cumming — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:42:51 +0000

It would be helpful if each grant program had in its title whether or not it was a competitive grant program or awarded on some other basis.

Glad to see Marko warmly welcomed and the comment is very interesting. What would be a really interesting comment is to identify exactly how each program, function, and activity in FEMA or otherwise decides to use a grant vehicle, a contract vehicle of a cooperative agreement vehicle? Often the choice is NOT dictated by Congress but by the various leadership cliques in any agency. My guess is that roughly 20-40% of the grants are going to overhead and consultant fees and never accomplish anything related to that grant. A flat 15-20% overhead rate on grants should be enacted rather than the abusive A-87 process which bleeds the patient dry before the mission gets accomplished.

By: Claire Rubin

Claire Rubin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:25 +0000

I second the thanks from Chris. Good explanation, but I think our legacy of grant programs needs review and revision!

Claire

By: bellavita

bellavita — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:08:39 +0000

MARKO — If there were an award given for the most informative comment to a hlswatch.com post, I’d nominate what you wrote about homeland security (and related) grants. Thanks for taking the time to put all of that information, perspective and history in one place.