Delay angers advocates, but administrators point to missing documentation
Only 112 of the tens of thousands of claims submitted to the 9/11 fund established by Congress for victims of 9/11 have been resolved, meaning determinations have been made and money awarded to the claimants. The $27 million paid out so far amounts to less than one percent of the $2.8 billion fund.
That statistic, in the 2nd Annual Report recently released by the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, shows “a major lack of progress in making final determinations of claims and making awards to those that have been waiting so long for compensation,” according to 9/11 Health Watch,