News

Email – URGENT update from the VCF – ACTION REQUIRED – November 3, 2022

Email – Important Updates and Reminders_NYSLRS, Expedite Requests, and NYCERS – October 12, 2022

Email - Important Updates VCF Password Policy and Client Authorization Form - August 16 2022

Email re VCF Website Update – New Password Policy_Aug082022

Email – Missing Information Extension Requests – Updated Policy – July 1, 2022

Email - VCF Online Claims System Acceptable Use Policy Update - June 13, 2022

Email - Notes from April 26 VCF call with law firms - May 16, 2022

Notes posted from the April 26, 2022 VCF conference call with law firms.

Email - VCF Leadership Announcement - May 3, 2022

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.

Email - VCF Leadership Announcement - April 5, 2022

Email - VCF Communications - March 21, 2022

Email - Important Reminders re: Compliance with DOJ Online System Acceptable Use Policy - March 9, 2022

Email - Important Information from the WTC Health Program - March 7, 2022

Email - VCF Website Update, Message from the Special Master - February 24, 2022

When a claimant who has filed a personal injury claim dies, the VCF will stop processing the claim and/or payment of that claim until a Personal Representative of the deceased claimant (“decedent”) is appointed and validated by the VCF.  This protects the decedent’s personal information and ensures details about the claim are shared only with those who are authorized to access the information. 

Unlike in a personal injury claim, where the victim is still living, the circumstances of a deceased claim filed do not change. Therefore, all losses in a deceased claim should be known to the claimant at the time the initial claim is filed. It is far more efficient for the VCF, and increases the pace at which the VCF can issue awards to all claimants, if the VCF only has to review these claims, with all losses included, one time.

Our first priority is to render decisions on claims for those claimants who have not yet received any award. At the same time, we do continue to review amendments and use the same priority order of rendering decisions on older amendments before reviewing newer ones.

Cuando el reclamante que ha presentado su reclamo de lesión personal muere, el VCF suspende el procesamiento de su reclamo /o pago hasta que el Representante Personal del reclamante fallecido (“fallecido”) es designado y validado por el VCF. Es así para proteger la información personal del fallecido y asegurar que los detalles del reclamo solo sean compartidos con quienes están autorizados en ley para accesar la información.