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. Friday, November 23, 2001 2:08 PM Fwd: Comments on Rulemaking Attachment 1: Comments on Rulemaking My name is . I am the surviving spouse of , who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. We have two children, , 19 and , 17. Our address is Rockville Centre, N.Y. I have read Title IV of the Act, and my comments are as follows: The Rules dealing with Collateral Sources must make a distinction for insurance proceeds that are received under policies paid for by the decedent's family. Otherwise, similarly situated victim's families will receive unequal treatment depending on how they provided for life insurance. As a simple example, we paid substantial premiums for life insurance for almost 20 years. Assume that another family decided to self-insure, and instead of paying premiums, he/she places the amount equal to our premiums in a bank account or into a mutual fund. Twenty years later, we have the insurance proceeds, the other person has an appreciated bank account or appreciated mutual fund balance. Our insurance proceeds reduce our award, but his self-insurance fund does not reduce his/her award. At the very least, the collateral source amount should be reduced by the premiums paid plus interest. We would also point out that although some life insurance proceeds are paid through company plans, we, in effect, paid for the coverage by virtue of the fact that the premium amount was imputed as income to us. The Rules relating to Sec. 405(3)(B) should make clear that if our award is reduced by Collateral Sources, that we could file a civil action to recover the amount that reduced our award. Sincerely yours, Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2001-11-23 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 dojW000510.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. 2001-11-23