Richard Khavkine at LaborPress reports that for six years, with every new version of a State Bill that would grant them three-quarter disability pension benefits, a few dozen now-retired New York City Transit Workers who worked on the World Trade Center pile and have fallen ill have been hopeful.  And for six years now, they’ve come away disappointed.  Although a profusion of State and Federal Legislation enacted in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks and in ensuing years granted disability benefits to Civil Service Workers who worked at the site and subsequently contracted illnesses as a result, City Transit Workers have so far been shut out.  The legislation would grant Transit Workers who’ve contracted an illness as a consequence of having participated in the rescue, recovery or cleanup efforts - otherwise known as a qualifying condition - “a performance of duty” disability pension equal to 75% of the Worker’s final average salary. 

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