Individuals who were harmed following the September 11^th attacks are being compensated through a 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Eligible persons include those who were present or near “Ground Zero” during the September 11^th attacks between September 11, 2001, and May 31, 2002. Many of the eligible victims are those that were exposed to thousands of cancer-causing toxins released into the air.

Some of the cancer types that may allow an individual to be eligible for compensation include the following: lung cancer; prostate cancer; breast cancer; ovarian cancer; bladder cancer; non-melanoma skin cancer; melanoma; thyroid cancer; non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; multiple myeloma; leukemia; mesothelioma; head, neck, nasal, mouth cancer; colon cancer; kidney cancer; stomach cancer; esophagus cancer; bone cancer; liver cancer; brain cancer; sarcoma; and dozens more.

9/11 Victims Compensation Fund

If you have been diagnosed with cancer and were anywhere near “Ground Zero” during the 9/11 attacks, you may be eligible for a cash payout from the $7.3 billion 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. The payout from the fund may range as high as millions of dollars.

There are more than 70 different kinds of cancer that may allow an individual to qualify for an award. Another qualification includes that the diagnosis is made four years or more after the exposure to toxins or one year or more after the diagnosis has been made for blood or bone cancer.

Cancer victims also eligible for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund further includes: first responders; sanitation workers; city workers; firefighters, police officers and EMTs; construction workers; cleaners; utility workers; out-of-state responders; residents living below Canal Street; students going to a school below Canal Street; 9/11 volunteers; and many others.

If you were a student, worker, resident, or any person near Ground Zero at the time of the attacks, and have been diagnosed with one of the seventy different kinds of cancer, you may be eligible for compensation.

September 11, 2001 Attacks

On the morning of September 11, 2001, a series of four coordinated attacks were led by al-Qaeda, an Islamic terrorist group. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, and it forever changed America. That day, 2,753 people were killed, and almost a decade later, people are continuing to suffer adverse effects and complications from that attack.

Due to the release of airborne toxins released from 9/11, thousands of people are being diagnosed with cancer. Toxins may include burned jet fuel, aluminum, and asbestos.

The fund includes compensation for past medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost earnings, funeral expenses for loved ones, compensation for surviving spouses and children.

It was the federal government that set up the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund to help assist and aid cancer victims severely injured by hazardous toxins released from the September 11^th attacks. Although the fund was closed in 2004, President Obama signed a 2015 bill allowing the fund to stay open until 2020.