New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 2 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM › Subchapter 9 - WORLD TRADE CENTER ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY › Section 17:2-9.4 - Filing requirements

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A
				member or retiree must file a written and sworn Eligibility Registration Form
				with the Division indicating the dates, locations of service, and number of
				hours of participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup
				operations by July 8, 2021, to qualify for the presumption or recalculation
				pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:2-9.3, unless a retiree files an application for
				recalculation, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:2-9.3(b), before July 8, 2021, then such
				application for recalculation shall serve as the Eligibility Registration Form.
				This form allows eligible PERS members or retirees the right to file for an
				accidental disability retirement should they become totally and permanently
				disabled by a qualifying condition or impairment of health as a direct result
				of participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup
				operations.
(b) A retiree seeking
				recalculation of a retirement allowance pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:2-9.3(b) must
				file an application for recalculation, on a form prescribed by the Division,
				within 30 days of the date that the retiree knew or should have known of the
				existence of a total and permanent disability caused by a qualifying condition
				or impairment of health and its relation to World Trade Center rescue,
				recovery, or cleanup operations. Retirees who knew, or should have known, of
				the existence of a total and permanent disability caused by a qualifying
				condition or impairment of health and its relation to World Trade Center
				rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations before July 8, 2019, must have filed an
				application for recalculation, on a form prescribed by the Division, by October
				15, 2019 (within 30 days of September 16, 2019, the date members and retirees
				were notified of the enactment of
				P.L.
				2019, c. 157, and the
				requirement to file).
(c) A member
				with an Eligibility Registration Form on file with the Division must file an
				application with the prospective date of retirement pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:2-6.1.
(d)
									N.J.S.A.
				43:15A-43requires the Board to designate
				physicians to perform medical examinations of members who apply for accidental
				disability retirements. If a member or retiree who is enrolled in the World
				Trade Center Health Program provides medical documentation for treatment
				provided, or paid, by the World Trade Center Health Program sufficient to allow
				the Medical Review Board to certify that the member or retiree is totally and
				permanently disabled by a qualifying condition or impairment of health as a
				direct result of participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or
				cleanup operations, no further evaluation is necessary. However, if the medical
				documentation is not sufficient to establish a total and permanent disability
				caused by a qualifying condition or impairment of health as a direct result of
				participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations
				after review by the Medical Review Board, then an independent medical
				examination shall be required pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				17:1-7.10.