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Interior give $853,590 for Prior Service Trust Fund
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Insular and International Affairs Doug Domenech has authorized a payment of $853,590 in fiscal year 2019 funding for the Prior Service Trust Fund administration, which distributes benefits to former employees of the post-World War II, U.S.-administered, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in the Western Pacific
“The United States continues to meet its commitment to 771 beneficiaries who previously served in the U.S.-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,” said Domenech. “The Prior Service beneficiaries are elderly persons who rely on these monthly checks in varying amounts from $25 to $65 to pay for medicine, food, utilities, and even telephone service.”
Employee benefits provided through the Prior Service Trust Fund represent a responsibility assumed by the federal government following the dissolution of the TTPI in 1986.
The program serves beneficiaries with five years or more of prior service.
The four jurisdictions to emerge from the TTPI were the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. (PR)
