New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 5 - STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM › Subchapter 7 - 9/11 WORLD TRADE CENTER ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY › Section 17:5-7.4 - 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. 17:5-7.3, unless a retiree files an application for
				recalculation, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 17:5-7.3(b), before July 8, 2021, then such
				application for recalculation shall serve as the Eligibility Registration Form.
				This form allows eligible SPRS 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. 17:5-7.3(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 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.
(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.
				17:5-5.1.
(d)N.J.S.A. 53:5-10requires 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.