Budget Bill Helps 9/11 Responders
OPS_admin | Apr 14, 2011 | Comments 0
The new budget passed by Congress Thursday fixes a legislative gaffe that could have killed a new program that helps ailing 9/11 responders.
The problem was that the new James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act — passed in a bitter fight last December — included no way to pay for administration of the compensation fund, a cost likely to run to tens of millions of dollars.
That’s because the measure was modeled on the old 9/11 Victims’ Compensation Fund law that helped people in the years right after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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