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Special Master Rupa Bhattacharyya announced today that she will be leaving the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund at the end of this month for a position with Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

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Kimberly (Kim) C. Brown has joined the VCF as the Director of Operations. In this new position, Kim will focus on overseeing the VCF’s day-to-day operations in areas such as the Helpline and the processing of hard copy mail, identifying opportunities for innovation as the VCF continues to move into its long-term status stemming from the passage of the VCF Permanent Authorization Act.

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The VCF successfully navigated another highly productive year in 2021, in a year that saw not one but two significant anniversaries: the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Zadroga Act, which created in the VCF, in January, and then the solemn reminder months later that twenty years have passed since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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The law that governs the VCF requires that, in order to be eligible for compensation, the victim must have suffered physical harm or death as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks or the debris removal efforts in the immediate aftermath of those attacks.  The VCF generally looks at the victim’s death certificate to see what is listed as the cause of death. 

Prawo, które reguluje pracę Funduszu VCF wymaga, że aby być uprawnionym do uzyskania odszkodowania ofiara musiała ulec obrażeniom fizycznym lub śmierci spowodowanej przez ataki terrorystyczne 11 września 2001 roku lub usuwanie gruzu, które nastąpiło w ich następstwie. Fundusz VCF zazwyczaj zwróci uwagę na powód śmierci wyszczególniony w akcie zgonu ofiary. 

Standardowo, formularz aktu zgonu (zgodnie wytycznymi CDC) zawiera trzy (3) osobne kategorie, w których można wymienić przyczyny:

管辖VCF的法律要求：受害人有资格获得赔偿必须是在2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击或在这些袭击之后立即进行的清除废墟工作后遭受人身伤害或死亡。 VCF通常会查看受害者的死亡证明，以查看所列出的死亡原因。

标准的死亡证明书表格（与CDC指南一致）包括三（3）个单独的类别，其中会列出死亡原因：

La ley que gobierna el VCF requiere que, para ser elegible para compensación, la víctima debe haber sufrido un daño físico o muerte como resultado de los ataques terroristas, o la remoción y limpieza de escombros inmediatamente después de los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001. El VCF generalmente evalúa el certificado de defunción para ver la causa de muerte.