This past summer a federal fund created to cover claims by victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks moved from being a temporary program to a permanent one. The change to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was a victory for 9/11 survivors, their lawyers and advocates say. But the challenge now, they say, is that as the years pass and as people retire, businesses close and official documents are purged, new applicants to the fund are having greater difficulty obtaining the critical records to establish the “proof...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 27, 2019 13:52 UTC