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 06, 2001 7:32 PM November 6, 2001 Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 Dear Sir: I would like to offer my comments regarding the issues surrounding the September 11 Victim Compensation Program. There appears to be much divisiveness over the matter of adjustments to any federal compensation. The viewpoints seem to be rather polarized in that there should either be no adjustments or adjustments for all compensation received outside of the federal program. In my view, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. There are many forms of financial aid victims might possibly receive, among them insurance, pension, 401(k), charitable, ADD (accidental death/dismemberment), etc. The largest concern seems to center around the charitable aid. As a taxpayer, I do not have an issue with a victim receiving both charitable aid and federal aid. I made donations to more than one charity that assist the victims of this atrocity and had no concern doing so even if federal benefit were to ensue. I do believe adjusts to federal assistance should be made for non-charitable, non-federal financial aid, such as pensions and insurance. With regard to charitable aid, the bigger issue in my mind is to insure that those most in need receive the most support. Given the lack of coordination evident among the 160+ charities assisting victims (watch "The O'Reilly Factor"), it would do my heart good if the Special Master of the federal compensation program were to also oversee the charitable effort. This approach could provide the crosschecking needed to preclude fraud and mismanagement, while at the same time assuring well-targeted support to those in need. Since it would seem the federal program must establish a database of eligible recipients anyhow, why not use that same database as the central repository of information for all the support efforts (federal, state, city, charitable, etc.) underway so that everyone involved can have access to immediate information on what has been given to whom, when it was received, from whom, etc. This would also allow the media, who are my oversight surrogates, to confirm that the right things are being done and verify that both my tax and charitable dollars are being wisely and properly spent. Thanks for you consideration, Individual Comment Newton, MA September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-06 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 dojW000146.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. 2001-11-06