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. Fri Jan 18 2002, 1:18 PM PST show headers My comments to "Federal Victims (Heroes) Compensation Program" My comments regarding the Federal Victims(Heroes) Compensation Fund are as follows: 1) The $250,000 non-economic payout is way too low. My sister was only 31 years old and was the mother of a 10-month old little boy. He will never get the chance to even know his mother. 2) The charts that are being used to calculate the economic payout are extremely outdated. Today, women work much longer then they did when these charts were formulated. Also, work performed in the home needs to be calculated into the formula as well. 3) The fact that payments such as Life Insurance and Social Security Survivor's benefits are subtracted from the total is insane. In reference to the Social Security Benefits, it's like the government is giving with one hand and taking back with the other! In reference to the Life Insurance, why should people be penalized for the foresight of their loved ones? 4) Also, the fact that you have know way of knowing what your financial payment will be until after you sign up for the program, thereby, giving up your right to sue if the total is too low is ridiculous. You should know exactly what your options are so that you can make an educated decision. You're talking about people's lives here! I attended the rally in the Park Avenue Armory last night and everyone in attendance, and I'm sure many people0 who were not able to attend, have many of the same grievances. In fact, Governor Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and many other government officials voiced the same concerns. If this program, is truly meant to compensate the victims or victims' families, these grievances should be seriously taken into consideration. As it is now the Federal Victims Compensation Program is an injustice and a disgrace. If Mr. Feinberg truly cares about the families he will take the time to hear what we have to say and make the necessary changes so that the Federal Victims Compensation Program meets the needs of all those concerned and, in doing so, honors the memory of all those lost on September 11th. Thank you. Individual Comment Middle Village, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-02-04 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 dojN002533.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. 2002-02-04