Based on that info VictoryGal, they don’t need help and handouts.
Not one more penny from me for forced charity.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/19/usat-charity.htm
In the confusion, families are beginning to turn on one another. At meetings of World Trade Center survivor groups, widows of uniformed rescuers find themselves pitted against survivors of accountants and dishwashers.
The survivors of New York City firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers are favored with $250,000 federal payments to each family, full-salary pensions and $353 million in charitable funds earmarked for the fallen national heroes. Those charity payments could average $880,000 per family, according to a New York Times survey. That would put total benefits well above $1 million. By contrast, families of victims who held menial jobs may receive $100,000 or less from charities and employers.
“I know they gave their lives, but that was their choice,” Janine Snyder says of the rescuers who perished. Her husband, Leonard, an insurance executive, died at the World Trade Center. “My husband was just going to work. If he had known this, he wouldn’t have gone in to work.”
It’s hard to blame “civilian” families for being resentful, supporters of the rescuers’ survivors say.
“The frustration is not toward the fire families,” says New York City firefighter Joe Miccio, vice president of the 9-11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association. “The frustration is that there’s a lot of money that’s been donated that’s supposed to help families, and it’s not getting to them. There are a lot of horror stories going on. A lot of the civilians don’t have enough to pay their bills.”
Another reference to us peons as civilians by either fireman or police.