dojW000155.xml

dojW000155.xml

born-digital

email

yes

no

2001-11-06

Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:41 PM
Suggestion


11/6/01 - One of the major complaints victims have expressed in trying to collect benefits from charities re 9/11 is the extensive paperwork they have to complete each time they go to a different charity.  DOJ could easily persuade or compel all charities to use a uniform information sheet with family's personal data.  Put that form on your web site and let victims' families download the form on their own floppy disk.  95% + of victims are computer literate enough to do this themselves, and the other 5% can get help from most libraries which now have computers.  Then when they visit each charity, the charity can download the information they need without having to write anything out.  Just sign the form to verify its accuracy.   Over time, perhaps a serialization could be entered on each disk so that every charity and agency could check and see what benefits every other agency had paid out, to avoid duplication and fraud.   In 5 to 10 minutes all of the 'paperwork' involved in processing a claim would be completed.

Individual Comment
San Diego, CA

2001-11-06