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House moves disability-retirement reviews for corrections officers to retirement commission
Summary
Lawmakers shifted the process for permanent disability claims by corrections officers from OPM labor review to the comptroller's retirement commission and created a new oversight path; supporters said the change adds oversight and avoids a single-person bottleneck.
The Connecticut House on Jan. 28 adopted an emergency-certified resolution (House Resolution 11) that moves the initial review of permanent disability retirement applications for corrections officers from the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) labor division to the state comptroller's retirement commission.
Representative Josh Elliott, the bill proponent, said the change places disability retirement determinations for grievously injured correctional officers with the retirement commission — a 15‑member body that addresses retirement issues regularly — rather than with a single labor‑division…
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