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, November 13, 2001 12:36 PM I am enclosing a letter that Senator Corzine recieved which Attachment 1: RE: CIV 104P; AG Order No. RIN: 1105-AA79 September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 Dear Mr. Zwick: I am a September 11th widow. As someone who is experiencing first-hand the bureaucratic nightmare generated by variants in private and public aid institutions, I implore you to consider this - that the Victims Compensation Fund as currently written alludes to a series of economic and non-economic "criteria" (undefined). While commenting on what is not known is difficult at best, I offer these concerns: Collateral subtracted from compensation punishes those families of victims who paid for policies and benefits and Federal programs out of their salaries, who lived within their means and saved and whose surviving family members have already struggled to receive help from an array of charity funds whose donations were intended by the American people to be distributed to those families regardless of circumstance. There is no consideration of the amount of income contribution or benefits (such as health insurance) that have been lost. The relative pain and suffering of the victims cannot and should not be quantified in these circumstances; to attempt to do so is wildly inappropriate. The administrative cost of information gathering, verification, documentation, and evaluation required to implement this process would proportionately reduce the funds available to the families and put them (yet again) through unnecessary bureaucracy. The requirement to accept the offer in lieu of pursuing a lawsuit prior to knowing the dollar amount of the payment is egregious and unfair. The possibility of subjective evaluations raises the potential of inequity and places the burden of proof on those seeking some sort of help. For all these reasons, I urge you to abandon the arbitrary set of criteria set forth in the rules and regulations and simply divide the total into equal cash payments to every applicant. Otherwise, I believe that this Act will spawn the hundreds, perhaps thousands of lawsuits it seeks to avoid. Sincerely, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-13 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 dojW000334.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. 2001-11-13