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Update on Sequestration and 9/11 health
Peg Seminario, 911 Health Watch Board member and Director for Safety and Health for the AFL-CIO, has updated her article on the “sequester” – the across the board budget cuts that recently went into effect- and how it will impact both 9/11 Programs. The article explains that the Victims Compensation Fund faces a $17 million […]
Update on Sequestration and 9/11 health
Peg Seminario, 911 Health Watch Board member and Director for Safety and Health for the AFL-CIO, has updated her article on the “sequester” – the across the board budget cuts that recently went into effect- and how it will impact both 9/11 Programs. The article explains that the Victims Compensation Fund faces a $17 million […]
Widow of NYPD detective killed by cancer fighting for 9/11 benefits
Ten years after cancer-stricken NYPD Det. Thomas Weiner received a promotion on his deathbed from Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, his family is still fighting for recognition that he died from working at Ground Zero.
911 Health Watch Releases “VCF Deadline Countdown Clock”
Today, 150 days before the first major deadline under the revised September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), 911 Health Watch released its VCF Deadline Countdown Clock to remind those injured by 9/11 that they may have only 150 days to register with the VCF. For Immediate Release: May 6, 2013 Contact: Benjamin Chevat (646) 634-9103 […]
Charles J. Wassil, Jr., 52, Peekskill Detective, Sept. 11 First Responder
Charles J. Wassil, Jr., a 9/11 responder and detective with the Peekskill Police Department, died May 1. He was 52.
Update on WTC Health Program
The World Trade Center Health Program just released updated statistics for all four of its programs for the 4th Quarter of 2012. They show the total program participation for the New York Fire Department Program, the Responders Program, the Survivor Program and the National Program is at 64,038 Responders and Survivors. http://www.cdc.gov/wtc/pdfs/WTCHPStatus2013-03-26.pdf Since the new […]
Cancer rates elevated for some 9/11 responders
The members of Congress who were most instrumental in passing the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 said a finding of elevated cancer rates among first responders to the 2001 terrorist attack further justified the need…
9/11 Pentagon, Shanksville Responders to be covered under WTC Health Program
The World Trade Center Health Program today published in the Federal Register an Interim Final Rule detailing the eligibility criteria for responders to receive care and treatment following the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. https://federalregister.gov/a/2013-07146 The James Zadroga, 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which was signed into […]
9/11 Pentagon, Shanksville Responders to be covered under WTC Health Program
The World Trade Center Health Program today published in the Federal Register an Interim Final Rule detailing the eligibility criteria for responders to receive care and treatment following the terrorist attacks at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. https://federalregister.gov/a/2013-07146 The James Zadroga, 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which was signed into […]
Queens Health Center Relocates to Larger Facility in Rego Park, Queens
Wanted to let you know that yesterday, the North Shore-LIJ Health System opened a new Queens World Trade Center (WTC) Clinical Center of Excellence, moving from Flushing to new larger facility in Rego Park, Queens. The new 3,650-square-foot center, about 50 percent larger than the Flushing facility, is part of the responder Health Program created […]