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City Rejections of 9/11 Claims Surprisingly High

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 12/11/17

Sixteen years after 9/11, city officials have rejected close to 40 percent of the World Trade Center notice-of-participation claims filed by city workers hoping to document that they participated in the response-and-recovery effort, according to testimony offered by officials at a State Senate hearing last month.

The four-page application is a sworn statement that must be executed by claim­ants attesting that they participated in WTC “rescue, recovery or clean-up operations between September 11, 2001 and September 12, 2002.”

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