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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2001

Victims’ kin I

to get 40M I• I

Non 22 By FRANK LOMBARDI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Families of uniformed person­ nel who died in the Sept. 11 ter­ ror attack will each get checks of Up to $100,000 before Thanks­ giving, Mayor Giuliani an­ nounced yesterday. The money marks an immedi­ ate disbursement of about $40 million of the $85 million ' raised for the Twin Towers Fund ' Giuliani launched after the ter­ ror attacks on the World Trade Center. “Certainly, each family that has children will be getting a check for at least $100,000,” Giuliani said. “And that will hap­ pen before the holidays, hopeful­ ly by Thanksgiving, so that peo­ ple see that money is immediate-' ly going to them.” ■ The remaining $45 million will be di.stributed later, after “complex questions” about how best to apportion it are resolved, 'Giuliani added. The money will go to families of NYPD cops, firefighters. Port Authority police and other uni­ formed personnel killed in the terror attack,. Mindful of criticism leveled at some charities for not being quick enough to distribute mon­ ey to intended recipients, Giulia­ ni said; “We’re veiy sensitive of that; we want to make sure the money gets in the right hands." “Every penny" donated to the Twin Towers Fund will go to those [for whom it is] intended, and money will be raised sepa­ rately to pay the fund’s adminis­ trative costs, he added.

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