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 08, 2002 4:29 PM Dear Sirs: In connection with the proposed regulations governing distributions from the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, I submit the following comment and appeal for change of the regulations. The statute provides for the Special Master to determine economic loss suffered by victims of the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Any such economic loss would reasonably be based upon the victim's earning capacity. Clearly, that earning capacity is best evidenced by the compensatioin the victim was receiving in the year of his or her death and within some reasonable period before that time. Nevertheless, the regulations choose to ignore the compensation being received by the victim in the year of his death and, instead, to look only to the three years preceding death. If the crisis had occurred early in the year, it might be reasonable to ignore the compensation in the year of death. However, the victims had worked almost three-quarters of the year at the time of the tragedy. Under the circumstances, it is unreasonable and unfair to ignore the compensation for the year 2001. The regulations can be changed to include the 2001 compensation within your discretion. The statute does not mandate that only the three previous years' earnings be considered in your equation. The current regulations unfairly prejudice the families of the young victims who received substantial pay increases and promotions for 2001. I hope that you will seriously consider making a change to include 2001 earnings in your formula equation for economic loss. Individual Comment New York, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-08 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 dojN001458.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. 2002-01-08