N001590
Monday, January 14, 2002 11:59 PM
sept 11th fund income calculation
Kenneth L. Zwick
I would like you to aware of the fact that when you
are averaging the earnings of 98 99 & 2000. In reality
what you are doing is averaging down the earnings.
Your tables show the increase in wages to be approx
5.5%. I think you are quite well aware that most
people that was lost were getting more then 5.5%
increases. I feel it would be fair to let us chose if
we want to average the earnings over those years or
let us chose the last tax year or even 2001 projected
earnings. The problem that i see with averaging is
that a person may have decided to take off some time
during jobs and therefore would get penalized in that
taxable year since he or she only worked part of year.
it would be a little easier on most people if you give
us a little freedom and give us a choice.
its highly unfair that you average down the victims
earnings intentionally to limit payments.
please make these changes for the sake of the families
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