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 9:29 AM Comments on the Interim Rules There are several topics which require review and revision: 1. Minimum Payment - There should be a minimum payment that would go out to all victims' families, regardless of offsets, to encourage more people to participate in the fund. 2. Consistency - All victims families should be treated in a consistent manner. That includes high income victims, who are on the outer part of the chart (that does not include me,by the way). Awards for economic loss, according to your established formulas should be extended out to the victims beyond the $231,000 annual income level. 3. Rolling 3 year income average - As I understand it, the income chart is based on the 3 year average of 1998, 1999, and 2000. This is wrong. It should be for 1999, 2000, and annualized 2001. That is more current information to use. My daughter, who was in WTC tower #1, had just changed jobs in March and started at &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp at a 1/3 higher base salary than her previous job. That must be included in consideration for economic loss. She lost her future income starting at that base, not on the smaller base that she earned the previous years. It would unfairly penalize us and ignore the true economic loss. 4. Partnership voluntary distributions - Programs such as &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp commitment to voluntarily contribute 25% of profits to the families of the victims from their company, should not be used as offsets to the award. 5. Non-economic loss - The $250,000 figure used across-the-board, is laughably low. Remember, these awards were meant to be in line with tort awards, to encourage families to participate in the fund, rather than file lawsuits. In general, it seems as though the original intent to give victims families sufficient compensation and incentive participate in the plan and stay away from costly law suits to insurance companies, airlines and security companies, has been lost in a political morass. Keep your eyes on the original goal and intent of the fund. Economic loss is valid and should be calculated consistently, without regard to what the ultimate figure becomes for a family. Unfortunately, the concept of compensation of victims to avoid lawsuits, has given way to politically oriented "cost control". Thank you for your consideration. Individual Comment Hackensack, NJ 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 dojN001615.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