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. January 9, 2002 Kenneth L. Zwick Direct, Office of Management Programs Civil Division - U.S. Dept. of Justice Main Bldg. - Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20530 VIA FACSIMILE: 1 (301) 519 5956 Dear Mr. Zwick I represent the Estate of (deceased). was a victim of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. I am writing to you with regard to the "September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001" (the "Fund") and the regulations applicable thereto. Specifically, I find the regulation requiring that any award from the Fund to the family of the victim be offset by all collateral source compensation such as life insurance and other government benefits is, in certain circumstances, unfair, inappropriate, and contrary to the stated objectives of the Fund. One of the stated objectives of the Fund is to compensate "...victims and their families...". Another objective is for the Fund to act as an alternative to lengthy and costly litigation. A wrongful death cause of action belongs to the estate of the deceased. Any recovery from a wrongful death lawsuit would be paid to the estate of the deceased and would be distributed to the beneficiaries or distributees of the estate. Life insurance and other "offsetable" items may not be payable to the estate but instead may be payable to named beneficiaries who are not necessarily beneficiaries or distributees of the state. The entire award payable to the estate by the Fund may, therefore, be wiped out by offsets that were paid to people who were not beneficiaries or distributees of the estate. It is entirely possible that the family of the victim would receive nothing from the Fund because of "offsets" that were payable to people other than the family. This makes no sense. I have no real argument with the concept of "offsets" provided the "offsets" are payable to the same people who would receive the award from the Fund. It is respectfully suggested that the Fund regulations be amended to provide that only collateral source payments payable to those persons who are the beneficiaries or distributees of the state of a deceased victim be offset against the Fund award. Very truly yours, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-09 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 dojN001889.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. 2002-01-09