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 9:19 PM 9/11 victims comp fund As part of the Airline Bailout Bill, the above subject fund was created. The purpose of the fund was to equitably compensate the victims' families and deter them from suing the airlines. At a meeting I attended about a week ago the special master of the fund led us to believe that economic loss, plus a 250,000 amount for non-economic loss would be used in the calculation.Economic loss would be annual earnings over a period of the persons working life [to age 62] Our son was 38 and earning approximately 30,000. Assuming he worked until age 62 he would have earned approximately 720,000 before any earnings adjustments for increases, etc. Based on the published tables figures, including 250,000 non-economic loss, we would get approximately 411,000 before any collateral offset.That would make his earnings loss worth 161,000 for 24 years-6400 peryear. That seems to be totally absured and unfair. In addition if he had one dependent child his award would be 594,000 instead of 411,000. The difference in the award should only be the non economic amount of 50,000. Since he did not have a child he is being penalized on his economic earnings. In addition, the total of this award must be reduced by any insurance proceeds. My son had a 50,000 policy provided by his company and 50,000 from workmens compensation. Reducing the award by that amount would net approximately 310,000. Is that amount what a 38 year old persons life is worth ? This award amount is totally inadequate and unfair. In our time of grief when the government is supposed to be helping us reach a quick settlement they are doing nothing but creating more aggrevation. for us. Based upon this very poor offer we are re-thinking our position about suing the airlines and others. , Parents PLEASE HELP. Individual Comment Bellmore, N.Y. 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 dojN001838.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