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Eligible Groups
The following groups are eligible for enrollment into the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program if the individual meets all four requirements: activity, location, time period, and hours. Enrollment in the WTC Health Program does not guarantee certification and covered treatment for health conditions. Each health condition has individual certification requirements that must be met before treatment is covered.
Fire Department - City of New York
Rescue and recovery effort
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Former WTC sites:
- Ground Zero, or
- Staten Island Landfill, or
- NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office
|
9/11/2001 to 7/31/2002
|
4 hours
|
Requirements
A surviving immediate family member of an individual of the Fire Department of New York City (whether fire or emergency personnel, active or retired) who was killed at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, is eligible for mental health treatment if the family member received any treatment for a WTC-related mental health condition on or before September 1, 2008.
WTC General Responders
This group includes people who worked or volunteered onsite in rescue, recovery, debris cleanup, or related support services
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
May fulfill time period and Minimum Hour Requirements at any of the following locations:
- Lower Manhattan (south of Canal Street), or
- the Staten Island Landfill, or
- Certain Barge Loading Piers
|
9/11/2001 to 9/14/2001
|
4 hours
|
9/11/2001 to 9/30/2001
|
24 hours
|
9/11/2001 to 7/31/2002
|
80 hours
|
This group includes people who participated in rescue, recovery, debris cleanup, or related support services
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Lower Manhattan (south of Canal Street) including Ground Zero, the Staten Island Landfill, or certain barge loading piers, or
|
9/11/2001 to 9/14/2001
|
4 hours
|
Onsite at Ground Zero, the Staten Island Landfill, or certain barge loading piers, or
|
9/11/2001, to 7/31/2002
|
4 hours
|
Lower Manhattan (south of Canal Street), or
|
9/11/2001 to 9/30/2001
|
24 hours
|
Lower Manhattan (south of Canal Street) |
9/11/2001 to 7/31/2002 |
80 hours |
Involved in the examination and handling of human remains or dust covered body bags from the WTC attacks
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
A location of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of NYC or the morgue at Bellevue Hospital
|
9/11/2001 to 7/31/2002
|
4 hours
|
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Port Authority Trans-Hudson Tunnel
|
2/1/2002 to 7/1/2002
|
24 hours
|
Exposed to debris from the former WTC while retrieving, driving, cleaning, repairing, and maintaining vehicles contaminated by airborne toxins
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Not Applicable
|
9/11/2001 to 7/31/2002
|
4 hours
|
WTC Survivors
Those who lived, worked, went to school, or attended child or adult day care in the
NYC Disaster Area
on 9/11 or in the days, weeks, or months after. Also those who were present in the dust or dust cloud within the NYC Disaster Area on 9/11. See a map of the NYC Disaster area here.
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
NYC Disaster Area
|
9/11/2001
|
Not Applicable
|
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
NYC Disaster Area
|
9/11/2001 to 1/10/2002
|
4 days (Each day must be at least 4 hours)
|
9/ 11/2001 to 7/31/2002
|
30 days (Each day must be at least 4 hours)
|
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
NYC Disaster Area
|
9/11/2001 to 1/10/2002 |
4 hours |
New York City disaster area
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
NYC Disaster Area
|
9/11/2001 to 5/31/2003 |
Resided during the time frame |
This group includes a person whose place of employment:
- Was located in the New York City disaster area; and
- Was deemed eligible to receive a grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation WTC Small Firms Attraction and Retention Act program or other government incentive program designed to revitalize the lower Manhattan economy after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
NYC Disaster Area
|
9/11/2001 to 5/31/2003 |
Located in NYC Disaster Area during time frame |
Pentagon/Shanksville Responders
Active or retired member of a fire or police department (fire or emergency personnel), worked for a recovery or cleanup contractor, was a volunteer, was an employee of the Department of Defense or any other Federal agency, worked for a contractor of the Department of Defense or any other Federal agency between September 11, 2001, and September 18, 2001, or was a member of a regular or reserve component of the uniformed services.
Any individuals described above must have participated in rescue, recovery, demolition, debris cleanup, or other related services
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Pentagon Site
|
9/11/2001 to 11/19/2001
|
4 hours
|
Location |
Time Period |
Minimum Hour Requirements |
Shanksville, PA site
|
9/11/2001 to 10/3/2001
|
4 hours
|