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Committee advances bill extending benefit filings for 9/11 responders after doctors and veterans testify
Summary
After testimony from medical experts and dozens of first responders, the assembly committee released A4004 as amended, extending filing windows and widening eligibility so some retirees and survivors can seek accidental disability or death benefits tied to 9/11 rescue, recovery and cleanup service.
A New Jersey Assembly committee on Thursday advanced A4004, a bill that would extend filing windows and adjust eligibility for certain pension recalculations and accidental-death or disability benefits for public safety workers who participated in 9/11 rescue, recovery or cleanup operations.
Dr. Iris Utterson, lead physician at Rutgers’ World Trade Center clinical center, told the committee that many illnesses tied to 9/11 exposure develop decades after contact with contaminants. “Cancer often takes 20 to 30 years after an exposure to develop,” she said, describing ongoing diagnoses among responders and arguing that the state should protect affected workers and their families.
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