New York S00842 provides disability retirement benefits to corrections officers who contract COVID-19 while employed and suffer permanent disability.

New York S00842 amends the retirement and social security law to presume that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death contracted the virus in the performance and discharge of duty. Such officers are eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit. This presumption applies unless proven otherwise by competent evidence.

New York S00842 provides disability retirement benefits to corrections officers who contract COVID-19 while employed and suffer permanent disability.

New York S00842 amends the retirement and social security law to presume that a corrections officer who contracts COVID-19 while employed in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision and suffers a permanent disability or death contracted the virus in the performance and discharge of duty. Such officers are eligible for a performance of duty disability retirement benefit. This presumption applies unless proven otherwise by competent evidence.