{"id":141063,"date":"2026-03-17T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:49:07","slug":"new-pennsylvania-law-strengthens-ptsi-protections-for-first-responders-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141063\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pennsylvania law strengthens PTSI protections for first responders | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania leaders say they are making sure first responders are getting the benefits they need.<\/p>\n<p>They talked Tuesday about a new law that&#8217;s helping police officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI).<\/p>\n<p>They discussed coverage offered under the Workers&#8217; Compensation Act, which went into effect last fall.<\/p>\n<p>They include events linked to death, serious injury, threats to life, or mass casualty incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The coverages are investments in Governor Shapiro&#8217;s budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania leaders say they are making sure first responders are getting the benefits they need. They talked Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13068,28,30,29,64611,1825],"class_list":["post-141063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-first-responders","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-ptsi","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}