The federal government has always been keen on providing the family of ex-officers with benefits whenever possible and they didn’t make an exception when the administration agreed to change their initial verdict and gave responder benefits to the family of the late Kelley Chase; who underwent a training accident and died.
Kelley Chase’s widow receives responder benefits:
Elke Meeus, the widow had raised an appeal against the previous rejection of the benefits pertaining to her inability to care for the kids. The joy on her face was indescribable as reported by some of the news channels and by Jim Moore. Of course now with the responder benefits, she would be able to take good care of her children.
Chase had died on October of 2012 after he suffered some head injuries and since then the fight for the benefits was on. This training incident led to the chief of police staff issuing an order that all the trainees will have to wear helmets and head gear while undergoing training.
Elke had battled the case for a long period of time now and in her recent interviews she said that she had nothing but praises for how her request finally got granted even though she had to face a lot of problems in getting it done. Situations like this always bring a tear or two in our eyes and when a loved one who is also the sole bread runner of the family leaves you to battle with the world all alone with young ones by your side, these responder benefits can mean the world to you. Here’s hoping that things always turn out this way for people in distress and we hope that Elke gets to live a far better life now and manages to raise her children to her best potential.
