Registration of Participation in World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and/or Clean-Up Operations

July 20, 2010

September 11, 2010 is the DEADLINE for all 9/11 rescue, recovery and cleanup workers to register for Workers Compensation benefits. You must register to preserve your right to file a Workers Compensation claim in the future.

On August 14, 2006, Workers Compensation Law (WCL) Article 8-A was enacted to expand the time for a "participant" in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and/or clean-up operations who suffers, or may suffer in the future, from a "qualifying condition" to file a claim for workers compensation lost wage and medical benefits and to permit the Board to reopen such claims previously denied as untimely.

If you were a "participant" in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, and/or cleanup operations, as that term is defined above, you are required to provide information requested by the Board in the accompanying sworn statement if you were exposed to hazardous conditions which cause you to suffer, or may cause you to suffer in the future, from a "qualifying condition" for which you will or may file or have filed a claim for workers compensation benefits.

More Information: http://www.wcb.state.ny.us/content/main/forms/WTC-12.pdf

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