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9/11 Fund Running out of Money for Those With Illnesses

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The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced…
The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced on Feb. 15.
September 11th Victim Compensation Fund special master Rupa Bhattacharyya said she was “painfully aware of the inequity of the situation” but stressed that awarding some funds for every valid claim would be preferable to sending some legitimate claimants away empty-handed. “I could not abide a plan that would at the end of the day leave some claimants uncompensated,” Bhattacharyya said.
Nearly 40,000 people have applied to the federal fund for people with illnesses potentially related to being at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon or Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the 2001 terror attacks there, and about 19,000 of those claims are pending.

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