A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse public employee retirement systems for accidental disability retirements and accidental deaths resulting from the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Reimburse public pensions for 9/11

This bill would require the FEMA Administrator to reimburse eligible public employee retirement systems for costs tied to accidental disability retirements and accidental deaths from rescue, recovery, or cleanup work after the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. An eligible retirement system would be one that contains a member who participated in those rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations. Reimbursed money would be limited to costs relating to those accidental disability retirements and deaths and could only be used by the retirement system itself. The bill would authorize about $5.9 billion for FEMA for fiscal year 2027 to carry out these reimbursements and does not set an allocation formula or payment procedures in this text.