Or the if he or she was going to school, we go to the bureau of labor statistics and come up with a number, annual wage number as if they were working at the age of 25. So if somebody died who was 5 or 10 or 17 or going to school, we have the formula included in this program. And whether or not they had any dependents. Thats all we need to know on track a. Thats all we need to know. Now, we can meet privately with individual Family Members if they want to talk about other things. Thats find. That is fine. Thats fine. Welcomed. But under track a if somebody will just provide us the age of the victim, how much that victim was earning at the time of the accident and whether they have any dependents, thats all we need to calculate a track a award based on National Statistics about what that person would have earned over a lifetime. The claimant doesnt have to file track a. Its up to the claimant. But if the claimant wants a quick, prompt processing of his or her claim under track a for dea
[inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you all for coming this morning. My name is kenneth feinberg, and ive been assigned the task of designing and administering the gm ignition compensation claims resolution protocol, the gm ignition switch compensation program. I want to spend a few minutes this morning, a, an overview of the program, how we got where we are. Secondly, i want to summarize the Eligibility Criteria for claimants who can file a claim. There are and third, i want to explain a bit the dollars and the compensation that is available under the ram. Under the program. We started drafting this protocol about two months ago at, initially, gms request. We have reached out to a wide variety of individuals and institutions to get as much information as we could about what ought to be in this ram. In this program. I thank General Motors for their total cooperation in establishing this program. Theyre funding it, and theyre funding it without any cap on
Civilian in the military is one of you guys were saying life comes with. Trauma necessarily comes with attempts at recovery. Thats what we do and to get back to an earlier point of the whole idea of what has to be careful here because of the whole notion of perpetuating the stereotype of a soldier and so on. The fact is they are our broken soldiers from these wars. It doesnt mean they are going to be forever broken. Probably most of them back but that doesnt mean you dismiss this moment as you know other words were tougher trade we have always had a version of this. People have figured out themselves, we dont have to act as reactive before. We can advance an act with more compassion and understanding than we have in the past. It became one of the legal issues and the benefits trial for my son whether we could point to a particular incident that had caused trauma. And we couldnt. There were three possibilities of times that he had been in trauma that one of the symptoms was that he woul
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