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 11:22 AM Fwd:WTC Victim - Concerns about Proposed Victims Compensatio ____________________Forward Header_____________________ Senator Jon Corzine 1 Gateway Center - 11th Floor Newark, NJ 07102-5257 RE: WORLD TRADE CENTER VICTIMS FEDERAL COMPENSATION PROGRAM ( Employee) Dear Senator Corzine: My husband was a 52 year old employee of for 20 years, and is one of the many employees who is missing at the World Trade Center. Unfortunately, he was on the 101st Floor at the time of the terrorist attack. To say that my two children and I are devastated and are feeling a great loss is to grossly understate our feelings. He was a wonderful husband and a very involved father, and will be greatly missed. As a result of this horrible tragedy, my family is now in a state of great uncertainty. We have not only lost our husband/father but the sole supporter of our household. I am in the midst of seeking financial relief and have tried to keep abreast of all developments relating to governmental programs currently being discussed. The Federal Compensation Program has been one option that I am eagerly awaiting the details. However, there have been some rumors that have not only upset me but have made me feel like my husband has become a victim a second time. I have heard that Congress is working on a formula in order to figure out the compensation a family will get under this Federal Compensation Program. It is my understanding that a victim's annual compensation and age on September 11th will be determining factors in that formula. It is also my understanding that in the formula the amount of years that one is expected to work is also a critical factor. Lastly, it has been suggested to me that Congress is contemplating using the age of 55 years or 60 years as the baseline for one to retire, and, therefore, compensation would not be figured for any years past that. I am of the further understanding that the expected workable years will also vary according to the industry (in our case, that being the brokerage industry). To say that the above factors, in my opinion, are grossly unfair and lacking in justice, once again, understates my feelings. My husband was a healthy 52 year old man, who had every intention of working until he was at least 65 years old. Retirement before 65 was simply not an option for him since financially we were not prepared. He worked for for 20 years, as I mentioned before, and had very little fringe benefits. The Company did not provide a pension and while my husband did make contributions into a 401K, his Company did not make any additional contributions into that account. Additionally, the market has been such that my husband lost a great deal of the money he had put into the 401K Plan. For these reasons, we could not have afforded retirement and, therefore, he would have worked until 65 years old or older. I am certain that I am not the only one in this situation. Therefore, since you are my State Senator, I ask that you truly represent my family (and, most importantly, my deceased husband) when Congress puts together the final details for the Federal Compensation Program. It is not my desire to take the litigation route, especially since my family is not in a position to wait for the Courts. I have two kids that need to be taken care of and without a fair compensation program I will be unable to adequately provide for them. Since my husband was 52 years old, he had at least another 13 years that he would have had to work. My husband's life was cut short by terrorists. Please do not make him a victim again by cutting short the years that he planned to work. He would never have considered retirement before the age of 65 and I am simply asking that Congress take our situation into consideration when they fine-tune the formula in which they use in determining the compensation that the victim's families receive. It is the only fair and just way to treat this unfortunate matter. Please do not allow Congress to victimize us again by not providing us with the support that my husband had planned to provide. I would appreciate your response to the above as soon as possible. If you would like, you can either reach me by telephone at or at . My e-mail address is . I am having a difficult enough time dealing with the loss of my husband, and, in addition, having to deal with the financial problems that I am now faced with is way too much to bear. Thanking you in advance for your prompt attention, Very truly yours, 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 dojW000332.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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