Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was granted a 9/11-related police disability pension, The Post has learned.
The Police Pension Fund approved Kelly’s application during its Wednesday evening meeting, providing the former top cop with three-quarters of his $200,000 salary, according to documents obtained from the meeting.
Captains Endowment Association president Chris Monahan confirmed the news, only saying of the post-retirement approval that “any member would have to qualify for the criteria under state law.”
The accidental disability police pension has typically been approved for cops whose illness was connected to their time at Ground Zero.
Those types of police pensions are also non-taxable income due to a deal struck between New York City and the Internal Revenue Service, according to the New York City Police Pension Fund website.
Under state law, city workers can apply for the disability if they were assigned to the World Trade Center in the first 48 hours or if they worked at the site a total of 40 hours over the first year following the attacks.
Kelly, who was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as NYPD top cop in January 2002, was at the site numerous times that year. That March, he help carry the remains of the only female city cop to die in the attacks from what was believed to have been the south tower’s lobby.
The underlying illness that allowed for Kelly’s pension was not known.
The pension board consists of a dozen members, including the mayor, comptroller, police commissioner and union reps.
Kelly served as police commissioner for the entirety of Bloomberg’s tenure and was the city’s top cop for two years under Mayor David Dinkins after serving as first deputy commissioner in the department.
Kelly faced backlash for overseeing the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11. The pair of federal lawsuits that claimed the police program violated constitutional rights led to a more than $2 million settlement.
Kelly, who was the longest-serving police commissioner in Big Apple history, told The Post as he was leaving office he “can’t see any failures” during his career with the NYPD.
He could not be reached for comment.