PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To pay benefits to coal miners who have become disabled due to pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) or other chronic lung disease arising from coal mine employment and their dependents or survivors.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Assistance and Services for the Unemployed;
2. HEALTH;
- Occupational Safety and Health;
3. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Disabled and Handicapped Services;
- Families and Child Welfare Services;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Industrialist/Business Person;
- Women;
- Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease);

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- Individual/Family;