World Trade Center disability filings would use September 2030 deadlines

Participants or eligible beneficiaries must submit a participation statement to the member’s retirement system by September 11, 2030. This covers members who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations and eligible beneficiaries after a member’s death. The statement must identify the underlying employment dates and locations. A retirement system may allow secure online filing after validating the filer’s identity. The member generally must have passed a public-service physical examination or released relevant medical records. The disability condition generally must not appear in those records before September 11, 2001, subject to the listed New York City retirement-system exceptions. The statement deadline is September 11, 2030; the act takes effect immediately and is treated as in force on and after September 11, 2001.

Participants must file a sworn participation statement with the workers’ compensation board by September 11, 2030. The requirement covers people who took part in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations and want their claim covered by the workers’ compensation article. The statement must list the participation dates and locations and the employer during that period. Filing the statement does not itself file a workers’ compensation benefit claim. The board must send a copy to the named employer or insurance carrier. The registration deadline is September 11, 2030, and the provision applies immediately under the act’s effective-date section.

The workers’ compensation board would not reject certain covered claims as too late and would reconsider qualifying claims it previously rejected as untimely. This covers World Trade Center participants whose disablement occurred from September 11, 2021, through September 11, 2025. A claim must be filed by September 11, 2030 to receive the protection from the listed filing deadlines. The board must reconsider a qualifying claim previously disallowed under those deadlines. The protection applies to claims filed on or before September 11, 2030 and to open and closed claims within the workers’ compensation board’s authority.