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. Kenneth L. Zwick Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Dept of Justice Main Building-Rm 3140 950 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20530 Re: Comments: Victim Compensation Fund Dear Mr. Zwick: As parents who tragically lost &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp on Sept 11th, we would appreciate the Dept. of Justice to consider our comments in order that we as a family be treated with honesty and fairness relative to the intent of Congress to compensate the families for their loss. My recommendations are threefold: 1) Utilize the methodology established but eliminate the cap,i.e. using the 98 percentile. On December 17th before some 1300 victims' families the Special Masters indicated with clarity and emphasis that there would be "no cap". A few days later the Interim Final Rule was issued that A) Clearly indicated a "de facto" cap by adopting a 98 percentile ceiling. This is totally inappropriate because out of approximately 3000 victims there will be some 300-400 victims who earned six figures and dozens who earned a seven figure salary. Note well that while money is being expended from public funds, these individuals have been paying significant income taxes over the years and have been creating jobs because of their production as well as buying goods and services providing for additional jobs. A jury in a court of law would reward the families substantial awards because of such earning capacity. What is most disturbing is the Special Master's comments that an award of over $3,000,000 would be extraordinary. This gives the families an impression that is a contradiction. Congress has imposed no caps or stated that any or all awards would be extraordinary or rare. 2) Allow the claimants a choice of using 1999-2001 as a base of earning capacity vs 1998-2000. This would give those families' loved ones who just started their careers in the work force a more fair compensation methodology. It is also more contemporary and meaningful to utilize for both new and experienced employees. 3) Non-economic losses should include an award of a minimum of $1,000,000 per family with additional payments of $100,000 for each dependent for the families who had multiple losses. There should be fairness and CONSISTANCY in any applied methodology and there should be a guaranteed minimum. Finally, we endorse all those comments and recommendations that will be proposed by &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp . Sincerely, Individual Comment Montauk, N.Y. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-29 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 dojN002393.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. 2002-01-29