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Social Security registry omits 9/11 deaths

John Feal of the Feal Good Foundation spoke

Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | John Feal of the Feal Good Foundation spoke briefly at a town hall style meeting at 52 Broadway in Manhattan. (June 29, 2011)

WASHINGTON -- It puzzles statisticians and has been called "disturbing" by John Feal, a Long Island advocate for 9/11 first responders, survivors and families.

It led Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan) to write a letter demanding answers.

It is the fact that as many as 90 percent of the victims killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a decade ago are still not on the Social Security...

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