FEMA would repay World Trade Center accidental disability retirement and death costs if funded

FEMA would have to repay eligible public employee retirement systems for covered costs. A system must have a member who participated in rescue, recovery, or cleanup work following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Costs must relate to accidental disability retirements or accidental deaths resulting from that response work. Only public employee retirement systems could use the payments; other entities could not. Congress would still need to provide the money.

Congress would authorize $5,913,400,000 for FEMA to make the repayments. The money would support FEMA's repayments to eligible public employee retirement systems. This permission to fund the payments would not itself set aside money. The funding authorization covers fiscal year 2027.