Who is affected
To become eligible for compensation from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, you must have been injured or developed a disease between September 11, 2001, and May 30, 2002, as:
- a New York City Fire Department active or retired member
- a World Trade Center general responder
- a person in the course of ordinary employment, residence, education, or otherwise present
Eligible conditions & diseases
Cancers
- bladder cancer
- breast cancer
- kidney cancer
- liver cancer
- pancreatic cancer
- prostate cancer
- testicular cancer
- leukemia
- lymphoma
- myeloma
- uterine cancer
- ovarian cancer
- childhood cancer
- thyroid cancer
- bronchial cancer
- colorectal cancer
- eye and orbit cancer
- head and neck cancers
- lung cancer
- rare cancers
- gastric cancer
- esophageal cancer
- skin cancer
- soft & connective tissue cancer
- mesothelioma
Airway and digestive disorders
- asthma
- chronic cough syndrome
- chronic laryngitis
- chronic nasopharyngitis
- chronic respiratory disorder
- chronic rhinosinusitis
- gastroesophageal reflux disease
- interstitial lung disease
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- reactive airway dysfunction syndrome
- sleep apnea
- upper airways hyperreactivity