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. Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:18 AM The following is a couple of suggestions for the Special Master to correct the mistake in the ACT about deducting the collateral amount such as life insurance: Currently, in calculating the economic loss, it is assumed that each person would have worked a number of years equal to the average expected work life across the nation for males and females of the same age as the victim. In order to be fair and reflecting the true practice, a pension amount should be calculated for the victim after the expected work life to 100-year-old, that is 38 years if it is expected for a male to work to 62-years-old. Because in reality, after people retire, they would get private pension from the company that they work for. The reason to pick 100-year-old is that the insurance company uses the number to calculate the premium that they charged the people who bought the life policies. A pension amount should be calculated in the compensation fund because the ACT requires deducting the life insurance, which is different from a court ruling. Victims 401k and IRAs should not be deducted because those accounts are like bank savings accounts, which are only pre-tax and the spouse wont have access to until years later. To get penalized for saving is not fair! If someone spent the savings buying the big houses right before 9/11, the compensation fund says that they would not have to be deducted. What is the logic there? Individual Comment September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-17 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 dojN001928.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. 2002-01-17