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 6:48 PM 9/11 Victims' Compensation Fund/Kenneth Feinberg, Esq. Dear Mr. Feinberg: My husband , along with 34 of his co-workers was tragically killed in the September 11th attack on the WTC. They were employees of . I am writing to you to voice my concerns and objections to the Department of Justice's September 11th Victims Compensation Fund. It was my understanding that Congress set up the fund to ensure that the airlines bail out would not come at the expense of the victim's families. The act mandates full and fair compensation to victims and their families for their actual economic and non-economic damages. The DOJ has ignored this mandate and instead has written arbitrary regulations that will result in compensation levels far below the losses actually suffered by us. The DOJ's formula for non-economic damages is $250,000. for the person killed and $50,000. for the spouse and each dependent. Normally non-economic damage awards run well into the seven-figure range. This dramatic undervaluation of presumed non-economic damages runs contrary to Congress's general intent to provide full and fair compensation. Also, the method used to calculate economic damages are based on federal workers' incomes and not the higher-paying private sector. The cap placed on a victim's income at $231,000. per annum, combined with the offset for collateral damage further erodes the compensation we would receive from this fund. The DOJ should fulfill the act's intent by revising the rules to compensate victims and their families for the types of damages specified by Congress at levels comparable to those provided in the tort system the fund was designed to replace. I would greatly appreciate your consideration and attention to the aforementioned matters. Sincerely, Individual Comment Bayside, NY 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 dojN001795.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