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. Monday, January 21, 2002 5:03 PM Suggestions Minimum Award and Non-Economic Losses No victim's family should receive zero from the Victim's Compensation Fund. A substantial minimum amount should be established for all applicants and this amount should be known up front before the decision is made whether to forgo third party litigation. The present arrangement defies logic and common courtesy. Commentators have indicated that the proposed amounts for non-economic losses are too low. Therefore I believe that the amounts proposed for non-economic losses be doubled to $500,000 for each decedent and $100,000 for each of the victims spouse and dependents. This aggregate amount would then constitute the minimum amount to be received by a participant in the Fund. For example the minimum amount for a widow with two children would be $800,000 ($500,000 for the decedent plus $300,000 for the wife and two children). There would be no deductions from this minimum amount for anything. Hopefully these changes will eliminate some of the current frustration with the Fund. Widows should not have to wear their wedding rings on chains around their necks to indicate that they will get "0" from the Fund. My proposal is simple and straight-forward. It is easy to determine up front what the minimum amount will be. Like regular awards from the Fund this minimum amount should also be free of Federal and State taxes. Other Comments The final rules should contain examples of the present value compuations of selected collateral assets. Particularly the time periods. If my suggesions about a minimum award as discussed above are not adopted then I suggest that the amount of collateral assets that are deducted be capped at $250,000. Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments. Respectfully submitted, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-21 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 dojN002186.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. 2002-01-21