100% tuition scholarship for a fallen police officer's family

It is a scholarship that pays one hundred percent of tuition cost at any Puerto Rico public higher-education institution, for the widow or widower and children of a state or municipal police officer who died under specific circumstances related to their work.

The fallen officer's surviving spouse, while they remain widowed; children under twenty-one (21) years of age; and children older than that up to twenty-five (25), as long as they are pursuing postsecondary studies. The fallen officer must be state or municipal, and their death must have occurred: in the performance of their official duties; from a health condition or accident related to performing their duties; or, while off duty, as a consequence of intervening to prevent a crime.

• Be the surviving spouse, while widowed, or a child of a state or municipal police officer who died under the circumstances the law recognizes.Verified against the official source
• If you are a child over twenty-one, be pursuing postsecondary studies and not yet have turned twenty-six.Verified against the official source
• Be admitted to a Puerto Rico public higher-education institution.Verified against the official source

Information pending verification.

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   Step 1: Confirm the officer's death fits the law

   It is not enough that the person was a police officer: the death must have occurred in the performance of official duties, from a health condition or accident related to their duties, or from intervening to prevent a crime even while off duty. Gather the official documentation that establishes this.

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   Step 2: Verify the applicant's marital status or age

   The surviving spouse only qualifies "while they remain widowed" — remarriage ends eligibility. Children under twenty-one qualify with no additional condition; those between twenty-one and twenty-five must be pursuing postsecondary studies.

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   Step 3: The scholarship covers one hundred percent at public institutions

   The amended text authorizes granting scholarships "for the payment of one hundred percent (100%) of tuition at any Puerto Rico public higher-education institution." Before this amendment, the law did not clearly set that percentage.

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   Step 4: Check whether the 150-day regulation has already been adopted

   The law warns it is not effective until the one-hundred-fifty-day period the Police Superintendent, Municipal Police Commissioners and UPR Administration had to regulate runs out. Confirm with the Police or the institution whether a procedure is already in place.

The law's text does not set a single application office: the regulation the Police Superintendent, Municipal Police Commissioners and UPR Administration were to adopt within one hundred fifty days is what sets the exact procedure. While you confirm that procedure, a reasonable starting point is the Human Resources or Welfare office of the Police force the deceased family member belonged to, and the financial-aid office of the higher-education institution you plan to attend.

• Assuming the death had to be strictly "in the line of duty": the law also covers health conditions or accidents related to duties, and off-duty intervention to prevent a crime.
• Not knowing the spouse's eligibility ends upon remarriage.
• Confusing this scholarship with the Act 111-1988 fund or the Act 169-1968 pension: they are different benefits.
• Not confirming whether the 150-day regulation was already adopted before assuming the procedure is available.
• Requesting the scholarship at a private institution: the text limits it to public higher-education institutions.

These are the government pages this guide is based on.

• Policía de Puerto Rico

  Policía de PR

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