No Benefits for Worker for 'Budgetary Analysis' of World Trade Center Rescue/Recovery

A New York appellate court upheld a denial of benefits to a government employee who claimed to have provided "budgetary analysis" as part of the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations. Case: Matter of Daly v. New York City Office of Management & Budget, No. 534625, 03/30/2023, published. Facts: Dante Daly worked as an analyst for the New York City Office of Management & Budget at its Park Place office in Manhattan.  In the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center, the OMB assigned Daly to work at off...