New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 4 - POLICE AND FIREMEN'S RETIREMENT SYSTEM › Subchapter 8 - WORLD TRADE CENTER ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY › Section 17:4-8.4 - 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 retirement system 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 17:4-8.3. If a retiree files an application
				for recalculation, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:4-8.3(b)before July 8, 2021, the
				application shall serve as the Eligibility Registration form. The filing of
				this form, and the information required on it, allows eligible PFRS members or
				retirees the right to file for an Accidental Disability Retirement should they
				become disabled at a later date due to participation in the rescue, recovery,
				or cleanup operations at the WTC site.
(b) A retiree seeking recalculation of a
				retirement allowance pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:4-8.3(b)shall take the steps
				required under this subsection.
1. A member or
				retiree must file an application for recalculation, on a form prescribed by the
				Board, within 30 days of the date that the member 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 file
				an application for recalculation, on a form prescribed by the Division, within
				30 days from the date members and retirees are notified of the enactment of
				P.L.
				2019, c. 157.
2. A member or retiree 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.
				17:5-5.1.
3. A member or retiree who applies for
				accidental disability retirement must have a medical examination, pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				43:16A-7.
4. 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, then no further evaluation is
				necessary. 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.