An NYPD cop who reported having health problems from the toxins languishing over Ground Zero more than two decades ago has still not received any help from the federal government — because his illness hasn’t been certified by the World Trade Center Health Program amid ongoing turmoil at the CDC.

“They haven’t even looked at it,” said retired Detective Richard Volpe about about the rare kidney disease he’s been fighting for the last 22 years. “It hasn’t even been in front of the federal Victims Compensation Fund. It’s crazy to even think about it.”

Volpe, who spent six months both at Ground Zero and at the Staten Island landfill where he sifted through the mangled remains of the twin towers for human remains, suffers from IgAN Nephropathy , an extremely rare disease that destroys the

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