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. Wednesday, January 09, 2002 2:14 PM Proposed Final Rule I wish to file my objections to the current proposed final rules. First, I take issue with the proposed cap on earnings. I, as many others, will be unduly prejudiced by this cap. My wife, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp, worked long and hard to be successful and as a result, earned a salary in excess of the proposed cap. As any worker, we all anticipate that the current salary will grow as one continues a successful career. Limiting income to $231,000 not only results in a drastic reduction of present salary, but it then prevents the introduction of evidence that her salary would have continued to increase over time. If the cap were removed, at least I would be enabled to multiply her last years salary by the number of working years to get a more just result. Second, the final rules discriminate against those who did some estate planning by reducing awards by subtracting pensions and life insurance proceeds. Combined with the salary cap, this increases the chances that individual families will receive zero, or the proposed minimum of $250,000. The people who earned large salaries lived a more expensive life style. It's not right or wrong, it just is a fact. It is not fair to allow the family of a person who earned $75,000 (and lived accordingly) to receive a large distribution and maintain their life style and then penalize the family of a wage earner who made more than $231,000 (and lived accordingly)with a smaller payment (or nothing) that will put the family at risk of selling their home and moving to a smaller house and to change many of the facets of their life pre 9/11. The combination of the cap and the reduction for estate planning will only work prejudice on those who earned large salaries. Those who earned less and planned less will file claims with the fund and receive prompt payments. Those who are at risk of receiving nothing (or the bare minimum) will be compelled to choose the uncertainty of litigation--an end the fund desires to avoid. By shunting the higher wage earners into the litigation, you further harm the families because the limited insurance funds will be insufficient to replace the lost income of all the high-wage earners forced to sue. Finally, I take issue with the proposed lessened payouts to deceased women. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp had already worked for 20 years by September 11 (She was 43 when she died) and would have worked until she was 100 if she were allowed. We have 3 children and she returned to work after each was born. At the very least, the rules ought to allow the introduction of evidence that people would have worked beyond any fixed age and beyond the "average working life" as computed on some 20 year old chart. Thank you for your consideration of my comments. Individual Comment Rockville Centre, NY September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-09 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 dojN001470.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. 2002-01-09