The 9/11 Police Aid Foundation intends to assist and educate any law enforcement officer or agency who assisted in the rescue and recovery mission at the World Trade Center and Fresh Kill Landfill sites, following the September 11th terrorist attacks.

We will provide aid and support to surviving officers and their family members, who have fallen victim to illnesses and injury as a result of the 9/11 efforts. The 9/11 Police Aid foundation not only seeks to educate officers and their families, and law enforcement about 9/11 health and welfare issues, but provides a variety of much needed financial support to the sick officers and their loved ones.

The foundation also looks into areas such as doctor and mental health treatment recommendations, prescription benefit assistance, and a college scholarship, programs. The 9/11 Police Aid Foundation was founded by and is run by sick 9/11 NYPD Officers, looking to help other Members Of Service who are in need as a result of their World Trade Center efforts

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Please click here to read a letter from teh city regarding the WTC Settlement Process Agreement and City Pensions

September 11 - Cambridge Police 9/11 Memorial Services - click here for more information

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*Attention All 9/11 PAF Supporters:

Sunday: 9/11 Responders Will Urge Dysfunctional Congress to Stop Fighting and Pass 9/11 Health Bill

A coalition of World Trade Center responders, including the FealGood Foundation and other 9/11 organizations, will gather near Ground Zero this Sunday to demand that Congress stop the bickering and partisan fighting and finally pass H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Democrats need to get the bill on the House floor under normal rules so it can pass with a simple majority, and Republicans need to promise they won’t use the rules to play political tricks with the vote. People’s lives are at stake!

On Sunday, the group of 9/11 responders will also announce that they plan to travel to DC to be there when Congress gets back from its overlong six-week vacation to remind the politicians that people are sick and dying and Washington needs to take action.

WHO: John Feal, FealGood Foundation, 9/11 organizations representing the FDNY & NYPD, others TBA

WHAT: Press Conference
WHEN: Sunday, August 1st, 12:00pm

WHERE: Ground Zero Plaza at 7 World Trade Center, Greenwich and Vesey Streets

Zadroga Bill Amended to Allow for Claims by WTC Plaintiffs Who Have Settled

New York, NY July 28, 2010, For Immediate Release: Congress has amended the language of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 to allow for benefit claims by first responders and other World Trade Center Disaster Site clean up workers who have settled their litigation claims against the City of New York, its contractors and other defendants. The amendment to the bill’s original language now provides that any person who has settled a civil litigation claim that was commenced after December 22, 2003 and settled and released all claims before the final enactment of the Zadroga bill will be permitted to file a claim for benefits under the Zadroga bill. “Enactment” of a Bill means that the bill has been finally approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and signed by the President. Any settlement received prior to Zadroga’s enactment will be deemed a “set-off” (a dollar-for-dollar deduction) against the benefits payable under Zadroga for a Victims’ Compensation Fund payment only. The litigation set-off will not reduce the health benefits payable under Zadroga.

We expect the House of Representatives to bring the amended Zadroga Bill to a vote by a practice called “suspension” which means that two-thirds of the House must vote in favor of the Bill, not simply a one-vote majority as needed in an ordinary vote by the full House. The suspension vote is anticipated to take place by the end of this week. If not, the vote will await the end of the Summer recess. Once the House has voted, the Senate must take up the Bill but has not yet done so.

“This is fantastic news” said Marc Jay Bern, a Senior Partner at Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, LLP, one of the lead attorneys representing plaintiffs in the Federal Court actions arising from WTC workers’ claims of illness due to toxic exposures at the site. “We have always believed that it was wrong to ask these brave men and women, some of whom are gravely ill and suffering, to make the choice between real benefits available to them here and now and the possibility of another avenue of assistance that might never come to pass,” Bern continued. Plaintiff’s Co-Liaison Counsel Paul Napoli, also a Senior Partner with Worby Groner, et al., echoed Bern’s sentiment: “We want to be sure that all of the eligible plaintiffs can accept the settlement being offered to them through the litigation today secure in the knowledge that they will not be impairing their ability to seek benefits later under Zadroga.” A copy of the new text of the bill, still before Congress, will be posted on the Worby firm’s website for WTC claims: www.877WTChero.com.

NOTE : We are prepping a letter discussing our stance on the settlement. We are reviewing all available information and will post ASAP.

IN MEMORIAM

Rest in peace,
your tour is
over.