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. Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:51 AM Disappointment with deduction of collateral resources from potential awards Dear Mr.Zwick: I am writing to express my disappointment with the rules outlined for the Federal Victims Compensation Fund, particularly the rules which would deduct collateral resources from any award amount. I was told that the purpose of this fund was to provide victims with an alternative to the long and costly litigation process. After reviewing the rules outlined by Mr. Feinberg, I determined that the fund would clearly not provide ANY financial assistance to my family. By deducting collateral resources from the calculated award, my family would receive NOTHING from the fund. This cannot have been the intention of the authors of the statute. Regarding these collateral deductions Mr. Feinberg stated: ??after we compute economic loss and non-economic loss, that gross number must then result in a deduction for collateral offsets. ?Why? The statute requires it. The statute states that certain -- certain awards, certain compensation, certain benefits to victims must be offset -- such as life insurance or other death-benefit programs.? Feinberg weasels out of this by stating that he is only doing what the statute requires. The answer to his dilemma is simple ? CHANGE THE STATUTE. Legislation like this has never been passed in our country before. It was written in a hurry and everyone agrees there are flaws. It is imperative that the statute be changed now, before great injustices are committed and terrible precedents are set. He refers to private life insurance as a ?death benefit program?, as if it is something sponsored by the federal government. Private life insurance is an individual choice and not something that the government should penalize some for having (while rewarding others for not having it). It is not as if the federal government would be paying these families twice. The amount the families have been compensated by private insurance companies should have no effect on the award from the Federal Victims Compensation Fund. Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-15 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 dojN001613.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. 2002-01-15