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Quincy council approves home-rule petition to ease benefit barriers for police and firefighters
Summary
The Quincy City Council approved a home-rule petition on Nov. 10 allowing a sworn affidavit to substitute for missing preemployment physical records for public safety employees after state reviewers began requiring those records, a step city leaders say will reduce denials of accidental disability benefits.
Chris Walker, the mayor’s representative, told the Quincy City Council on Nov. 10 that a home-rule petition would allow a sworn affidavit by the city or the employee to stand in for missing preemployment physical-examination records for police and firefighters.
Walker said that in recent years state reviewers (referred to in the transcript as “Parac”) began requiring evidence of preemployment physicals when evaluating accidental-disability claims, and that many municipalities, including…
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