NC Firefighters Get Small Win in Death Benefits Fight

North Carolina firefighters are urging lawmakers to address death benefits for job-related cancers.
June 29, 2017

Firefighters in North Carolina continue urging state lawmakers to pass a comprehensive bill that provides full benefits for deaths from job-related cancers. A state budget amendment recently added another form of cancer to the list that can qualify for benefits, but a previous version of the bill would have added six.

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