Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. VIA FACSIMILE January 22, 2002 Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master Aviation Victims' Compensation Fund 78 Third Avenue Suite 2202 New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Feinberg: Regarding the proposed salary formula for the Aviation Victims' Compensation Fund, one of our members who perished in the World Trade Center has a circumstance which if not addressed would negatively impact her family's compensation. The victims, the mother of three- year-old twins, and her husband had made a decision that while the children were young, she would work a reduced schedule. Her employer the Port Authority had a "job-sharing" arrangement wherein she worked only twenty hours a week. To the best of my understanding, prior to the children's birth she had worked a forty-hour traditional full-time schedule. If the formula does not take into account this was not a permanent situation and after the children are older she would have returned to a forty-hour schedule doubling her current earnings, the base for her calculation will be half of what she would have earned once returned to the full time schedule. In addition to this particular situation, we do have concerns over the disparity in the final payout when using the proposed formula that relies on the current earnings as the base. It is hard to imagine that there could be such a wide margin in the compensation for a "stockbroker" and one of our victims who may have left small children behind. The impact on the families is the same: they have lost a person who is in the long and short run irreplaceable, Each family should receive the help they need and be justly compensated. As one of our surviving spouses said, there is no way to really make this right, but having financial burdens relieved goes a long way to start. He is currently not working as a result of his wife's death, so he can be with his three year old twins to allow all three of them to heal. So in this circumstance, not only have they been deprived of their loved one and her earning power, they have been deprived of his earnings as well. And as we all know, once you get off the "career track" it is difficult to get back on and make up those years lost. I hope these concerns will be considered when the final determinations are made on the distribution of funds. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact me at or via email at Sincerely, COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA AFL-CIO, CLC Women's Activities and Community Service Washington, DC September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN002556.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-22