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Finance committee approves two disability-waiver requests allowing employees to seek accidental-disability review
Summary
Providence City Finance Committee approved two motions allowing city employees who missed an 18‑month filing deadline to pursue review for accidental disability; the approvals permit review but do not grant disability benefits.
The Providence City Committee on Finance voted to allow two city employees to proceed with applications for accidental disability review after both missed an 18‑month filing deadline.
The approvals were procedural: the committee cleared waiver requests so the employees’ files can be reviewed for possible accidental disability, but committee members and city staff emphasized that the committee’s votes do not themselves grant disability benefits.
Melanie Borges, an employee with the City of Providence, told the committee she has worked for the city “nearly 34 years” and described being assaulted on a school bus on Nov. 16, 2018; she said…
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