http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/oil_spill_claims_administrator_1.html

this all i coulf find from Times-Picayunne
200 it says

Why do we need the people at the claim center?  The person I talked to on the phone said I could go on line and find out as much as she could tell me.  Feinberg said he was working for us,  so I say lets fire him for not doing his job.  That is what happens everyday,  if you don’t do your job you are fired.

CNN SAYS ANOTHER OIL PLATFORM EXPLDES AGAIN.

I filed my claim last Tuesday with GCCF After dealing with BP not doing anything for 45 days.
9 days later, my claim is still under review. If you call you just excuses and oh we’re so busy, but keep checking. The Who were right; “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
The media needs to hold Mr. Feinberg accountable for the delays.

Like others say kf =liar,obama =liar

I was just on the phone with a review person
I need to show proof that I was employed before the spill..
I told the lady I lost my job a reservations agent..
and found work as a chef in a beach front restaurant, but as others my hours are reduced to 25..
per the review person..
with out proof I would not be getting any money
I mean what do they want..  blood.
I told her I was being served eviction notice tomorrow,
said there was nothing she could do.
I think BP did a better job.

Melissa

0 minutes ago
I was just on the phone with a review person
I need to show proof that I was employed before the spill..
I told the lady I lost my job a reservations agent..
and found work as a chef in a beach front restaurant, but as others my hours are reduced to 25..
per the review person..
with out proof I would not be getting any money
I mean what do they want..  blood.
I told her I was being served eviction notice tomorrow,
said there was nothing she could do.
I think BP did a better job.
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so sorry to read this.I have had the same waiting for 2 1/2 months . I wll say a PRAY for you

MR.Garland myself and many other commerciel fisherman would like wwl to take up a topic on MR.fienbergs claim program he first explained we would have a notice on our claim or a check within 48hrs. of fileing with the gulf coast claims facility and as is got closer to the day he took over he changed his story to it could take as little as 48hrs to recieve a check well,then it changed to you would recieve notice or a check after our claims or reviewed and did not give a time line on how long that would take as it turns out its been 10 days for myself and many other fisherman and we still know nothing i feel he has misled the general public and the commercial fisherman of the gulf coast i previosly made two trips to the grand isle bp claims center with my documents the first trip i recieved a payment of 5,000 the 2nd trip i brought more document to prove my earnings and they increased my monthly payment by over a thousand dollars in a very timely fashion bp was much faster than this new program i feel the urgancy of this matter is fading you see shrimping season has opened but the problem is we have no sales for our product and wholsale dock prices are low because ther is no longer a good market on the shrip harvested in louisiana waters some docks are turning shrimpers away i carry a fresh products license wich also allows me to sell to the general public at retail prices but we have no more clientel willing to puchase our louisiana shrimp and it doesn’t look like MR.Fienbergs plan is working to well we need someone to investagate and run some airtime on this matter thankyou looking foward to hearing from you

Dear all it has become apparent that were all under review and its a hurry up and wait deal !
1800 we call they are our shrinks call them and keep talking to them tell them your whole life story and theyll listen but dont dare ask them the logical question whats my claim status cause you’ll get no where real fast .
no check equals big interest they yield on the escrow account fund
hang in there all

this thing is getting out of control once again they give feinberg control of a major claims process he f up the first time now everybody on the gulf coast has deal with all his lie an empty promises the thing is we need help now who do we call to ask question about our claims the number the give you is just for people who dont have access to a computer they dont tell you jack to think i voted for obama was he high what was he thing he just gave ken a way better retirment fund

Well, I’m sorry to hear that Melissa because I’m the Marco Jackson In the article and I’m as surprised as anyone else, but not really.  I used all my personal savings to open my seafood and BBQ stand it was going great until the spill.  I filed with BP in June I was under review as Rachel stated for 2 months.  Then I refile as they requested and I’m still under review.  I have children who can’t eat I’m under review.  Then to make matters worse I have had to leave my home.  Here I am having to move to my mother’s house feeling like a total loser and all I can get is we’re under review.  And for the people who seem to think us business owners are just whining and to get over it.  I hope wherever you live you never have to put up with disasters, because you will reap what you sow.  Your attitude towards your fellow Americans is disgusting and downright selfish.  Divine intervention has a way of humbling people like you.  And yes it pisses me off to see these BP ads on TV like they are helping us.  Please I will be talking to media till my lungs bleed,

Hang in there Marco! Business Owners have so much stress thes days. The Spill just doubled it.
Better Days are coming.
My claim is still under review. Still.

Everyone go the to GCCF home page and look at the GCCF Programs Statistics page it will tell the real story of what claims they have processed.
It first list the type of claim next number is total claims of that type, followed by the number of claims paid of that type then the amount paid.

They ahve paid a total of 11.6% of total claims. That means that 88.4% of all claims are still in review. Example Real and personal Property claims have paid less than 1% of total claims.

Claims by Category
(includes Individual and Business) Claims Submitted No. of Claims
Paid Amount Paid
1. Removal and Clean Up Costs 251 0 $0.00
2. Real or Personal Property 1,771 2 $35,163.38
3. Lost Earnings or Profits 37,228 4,899 $38,489,052.82
4. Loss of Subsistence Use of Natural Resources 2,623 5 $12,970.00
5. Physical Injury / Death 525 3 $736.50
Sub-Total to Date 42,398 4,909 $ 3 8,537,922.70

Point to make note of:
GCCF shows that they currently have 42,398 total individual and business claims. One would assume that most people have filed claims by now.
They currently have access to $2 billion
that would be an average payment of $47,172/claims

If yoc consider that the full fund will be $20 Billion that would be $471,720/claim

Why are they sitting on the money? Anyone think that they are slow paying to build up the intrest on the deposits in the bank. I think I heard someone say that Ken Finbergs compensation was tied to the inreset on the BP deposited funds?

well today i have to walk 7 miles to the store so i can buy some food with my 200 dollars of food stamps i get a month,i know you think thats great , but i have not had money over a year, now, schhol to get a better job in the oil and shipping companys, great , and they do pay very well, starting at about 50,000 a year, but they all are shutting down, it really makes me mad to hear people say your all in the same boat, no your not you have things, people to turn too, im on my own, this was a unemployment training class ordered, you get money if you go, well i got no money, unemployment, got schooling, training, a paper with my name, on it, and told by all companys maybe next year, just wait , , well tell that to my judge and the state that wants money and dont care if your not working , they dont beleave that there is a problem with finding a job, can you beleave that, people on here are like me having real issuses, but others are just tring to get money for nothing, i hope that all of you mocking people get a real dose of fraud on your case , and to others i pray for us

I made my claim last weds, i have associates that made claims day before yesterday and got there checks today!! I’m still waiting i don’t frustrate myself by calling just because what everyone has said about they can’t answer you. I got a 2 checks from bp within there 7day period, but i do seem to be confused when people that made claims day before yesterday are served and our boss all gave us the same paper work and im still under review. I don’t know whats going on but to stop alot of madness i believe there should be someone you can call to get a answer! OR atleast give you claim DENIED so you can regroup and start all over. I

Shawn I agree with you. that something has to be done. The problem is we do not have money to group together.  I filed in JULY and again the 24. nothing is happening. If they would just tell how much waiting yet people could at least relax some.

The press needs to be involved! There have been a few local stories but the HORRIBLE results under the GCCF have not made the national media. When the national media gets hold of this the GCCF will speed up.

Everyone really needs to look at the GCCF web page look at the new a press release section. Look at the inflamatory stuff from Feinberg he controls the media look at the statements from the new york times posted on the GCCF site ie read below

New York Times

August 29, 2010

Mr. Feinberg and the Gulf Settlement
Kenneth Feinberg, charged with administering BP’s $20 billion compensation fund, has been here before. A master mediator, he showed compassion and business sense when he settled claims for the families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, Vietnam veterans damaged by Agent Orange, and women harmed by the defective Dalkon Shield birth control device.

Mr. Feinberg’s plans for distributing BP’s money, announced last Monday, seem magnanimous and fair. They would provide swift, short-term relief for Gulf Coast residents, and a process for measuring — and appropriately compensating — long-term losses. Mr. Feinberg must be willing to make adjustments along the way. But everyone will get a hearing, and his fund is sure to be vastly better than the BP operation it replaces.

That, of course, has not stopped the legal and political ambulance chasers from jumping on Mr. Feinberg, much as they did after 9/11. Lawyers complained that his approach would deprive victims of the settlements they could command in case-by-case litigation. Grandstanding politicians charged that Mr. Feinberg would go easy on the company because BP is paying his expenses and those of his army of adjusters in 35 Gulf Coast offices.

Mr. Feinberg can safely ignore them. BP should, after all, be paying the bill. And the point of the exercise is to help victims, not lawyers. At the same time, he must also remain flexible on important questions like eligibility and requirements for documentation.

Mr. Feinberg’s preliminary guidelines for the final payouts, for instance, say that “proximity” to the gulf will factor heavily in who gets paid and how much. How close to the gulf is unclear. And while Mr. Feinberg must remain alert to fraud, he must allow for the fact that much of the gulf’s fishing economy is cash-driven.

The program has two parts. Part one offers “emergency payments” equivalent to six months’ lost income to any legitimate claimant. People have 90 days to file from Aug. 23, and anyone who receives a payment still has a right to sue. These payments will almost certainly be larger and quicker than the average check — about $3,200 — that BP has already doled out to 127,000 individuals. They can now file again. Mr. Feinberg calls this part of the program a no-brainer, and we agree.

Part two is trickier. It aims to provide compensation — “final payments,” under the guidelines — to individuals and businesses for long-term damages. Claimants will have three years to estimate these damages and submit a claim. If they accept payment, they will waive their right to sue BP. As with the 9/11 fund, this part of the program is intended to be an expeditious, reliable alternative to tens of thousands of tort cases, sparing plaintiffs and the company alike the expense and uncertainty of drawn-out lawsuits.

In another sense, however, the BP fund is very different from the 9/11 fund. Then, the problem was to figure out how much a victim would have earned over the course of a working career, an agonizing but relatively straightforward actuarial exercise. In this case, where the full effects of the spill on, say, fish populations may not be known for years, it may be impossible for fishermen and Mr. Feinberg’s experts to make more than informed guesses. Mr. Feinberg says he is well aware of these uncertainties, but without a deadline the claims process will go on forever.

After 9/11 Mr. Feinberg wrote checks totaling $7 billion to 5,300 families and injured individuals. Only 94 potential claimants went to court. Given his reputation, experience, and the amount of money on the table, it is clearly in the interests of every victim of this spill to give this program a careful, unemotional look. We probably cannot expect the lawyers to act responsibly. We do expect better of the politicians.

Russell i was just going to post the same thing. The AGs have been complaining to him in writing for a while and he ignores them. I am shocked at the juvenile response to try to discredit them. The tone of the letter explains a lot about why the system is the way that it is.
Talked to the government today about the process. Feinberg works for BP since they are still the responsible party under OPA and he is acting as their agent. No ifs ands or buts about it.

thanks Marco.  glad to hear someone understand what we are facing.
I total agree with what you are saying.
I filed and only asking for $732.00 for july and $692 for August.  this is my lost wages.
I am a single lady fo 53..  I cant find work,
Mr Feinsburg.. needs to listen and say a few days with the working people. and see just how hard it is for the average person.
wondering how much money he is making off of BP

I AM JUST WRITING TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW I"M STILL UNDER REVIEW. I DON T KNOW WHAT ITS GOING TO TAKE AT LEAST BP WAS PAYING. AND JAMES BROWN THE 1 WHO LIVED IN N.O. IN 83 TO F#@k OFF AND GO TO HELL WITH FEINSBURG ASS WHOLE…

How can this website be for the People and delete my last post. It was very informative and would involve everyone on this forum. If anyone is interested in a Grass Roots movement in Gulf Shores contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Pro Publica I think you guys are one of the best sites for spreading the word of the struggles of the Gulf Coast people. Please allow some leway for some informative posts

I read that Feinburg proper documents not provided
I had to find pay stubs from before the spill
to prove that I had a job as a reserrvations agent (One I dont have anymore) and prove that I was present employed..  &  tax returns again to prove
that I earned money.  I understand there is fraud.
and like everyone else its been 2 weeks and I am still in review.  I guess they needed the 3 day weekend off…

Happy Labor Day weekend to all !
Day 13 still under review and probably will be for another 2 weeks based on their average of 800 to 1000 claims/day either approved for payment or paid and whoeverf is on the tale end of the 42,000 claims will be about 7weeks hand there all .

has anyone with a claim over $50,000.00 gotten paid ?
or has anyone been paid the amount they applied for?
Or has anyone been paid anything
I miss bp

When my approved claim payment did not show up in my checking account, I called and was told it had been rejected by my bank..could not tell me why and said just wait for an e-mail..wouldn’t tell me how much just said wait for an e-mail..couldn’t tell me how long to wait…just wait (she was very rude). I asked for a supervisor and was told I could not talk to anybody else…she was it. I called my bank and it turns out I had give the WRONG routing number. I called back and talked to a different person. She took the new routing number, then gave me the e-mail of the person handling returned direct deposits AND she told me the amount of my claim payment. I promptly e-mailed that I screwed up and relayed the correct routing #. The following day I received a fed-ex delivery of my check AND an e-mail explaining that rejected direct deposits result in a check being mailed.  THIS WAS POSITIVE and was entirely my fault.. Since I only asked for a month at a time, the second young lady said she would mail me a supplemental claim immediately in case I need it for the end of September.  THIS WAS GOOD (with the exception of the first young woman), my experiences are changing for the better and I hope it continues…I am actively looking for a job…....WISH ME LUCK!

I have filed a claim for over 50K.  I have not received anything from either bp or gccf.  I was approved right before Feinberg took over.  So my guess who knows when anything will be paid.

WHY didn’t Feinberg open his office(s) on the COAST and hire the people out of work there….That would eliminate many of the loss of income claims…There are MANY of us as qualified or BETTER than the people we are dealing with….It would have been a win-win deal…The company I worked for made a KILLING off of renting condos to BP claims adjusters…...Many of the adjusters were PICKY PICKY PICKY about having a BEACHFRONT condo and plenty of room for their families to come and stay….......Oh and this company still filed loss of revenue (some of it was BOGUS…made up and cancelled reservations)......glad my job was eliminated with THEM but sure would like to go back to work somerwhere!

well its day 13 and still getting apoligys and they still have no answers to any of my questions before gccf took over i made two trips to grad isle bringing supporting documents to bp that supported 6,048 dollars a month and thats what i was getting my claim still under review been that way for 6 days they sent me an email saying they have new eligability criteria to base future payments on and if im not happy with that payment i could file for final payment how can we file final payments when we dont know the long term effects of our seafood,waters,or our clientel that my family spent 16 years working on a shrimp to build a faimly buisness just sounds like fancy lawyer talk to me and i told them so the national media sure needs to get a hold to this

Guys email and call all the media outlets. I have done it and if enough of us do it then it is obviously an issue. remeber we are working against a force here. BP is spending millions a day in advertising that they are doing right by us down here. The world thinks we have been taken care of or made whole.

Please respond via email if you are planning on attending the meeting at Champ’s Place in Gulf Shores on Tuesday Sept 7th at 3pm.

I have asked the media to be there. We will make strides people believe in it!

o

Today, 11:19 a.m.
has anyone with a claim over $50,000.00 gotten paid ?
or has anyone been paid the amount they applied for?
Or has anyone been paid anything
I miss bp
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Has anyone under this $50,000 got paid? I have a claim in for 8,000 and never heard a thing. Just under review. Everytime I check it, it says this.

answer for marsh is no, I have $36,000 in review for over a week still no sign of payment ,
Same old excuses when you call dont bother eveen calling because its the same response we cant tell you anymore than the website tells you so just like I posted earlier theyre averaging about 800 to 1000 claims a day , there is 42,000 claims so your lookin at least7 wee\ks before they complete what they have in their system now.

I have been waiting for 2 weeks for a payment, everytime I call the center I get another story, it’s interesting to see how many excuses they can make.  I am very doubtful we will get paid at all.  We are in the D & D file, defer and delay, while the fund collects big interest everyday to feather Feinberg’s nest.  He is a bloodsucker who makes his money off other people’s pain.  He also delayed many of the 9/11 victim’s payments, some are still waiting after 8 years!  I wonder what the suicide rate along the gulf coast has risen to?  Frustration and depression permeate this area. Also, what about the dispersant COREXIT?  That may kill us all before we get anything.  They dumped 1 MILLION gallons of it on the gulf to disperse the oil. I guess we residents of Alabama and Mississippi are the red headed step children as Louisiana and Florida are being paid faster than we are.  I hope Feinberg rots in hell and takes the BP execs and Obama with him.  They are all in this debacle together.  What goes around, comes around, Kenny.

all i heard was another 7 to 10 days to hear anything

its nice to see they are having a good holiday , great for them

I’m bringing to all loyal followers of ProPublica story on “New Gulf Compensation Chief Lags in Processing Claims” an update on more information I have experienced.  I was on a flight back from Charlotte NC last night to New Orleans and was seated next to a claims rep from Hammond LA returning from Indiana.  (He had no clue to what kind of two-hour flight he was about to have)  I introduced myself being the southern lady that I am and he did the same.  I started with my get to know my stranger questions and this is when I discovered he was working for the GCCF.  I asked if he lived in New Orleans and he said no he was working in Hammond.  I said I bet you work for BP.. not giving on that I knew all about the facility in Hammond.  He said yes and then I asked if he was there when BP had it before Feinberg took over and he said yes.  I then said “don’t worry security took my Swiss army knife and scissors you are safe”.  This broke the ice and we had a very nice and very open conversation for the next two-hours. 
This is what I found out.  I will take a lie detector test and I will go before any court and give as detailed and accurate account of what I found out.  I’m going to list the findings in short detail because we talked the whole two-hours and I’m not up to writing 50 pages on here. 

1.  The GCCF reps are now called “process and reviewers”. 
2.  The BP workers felt they did a better job before Feinberg took over.
3.  Feinberg wants a media silence on the whole process.
4.  Feinberg will not do anymore taped or video meetings so he won’t get caught in some embellished lies that he has told.
5.  Feinberg has the claims categorized by industry and zones now.  Not by claims or when they were filed.
6.  He acknowledged there was a code of DD put on larger claims to delay.  (document and delay)
7.  Feinberg is pushing to get as many claims settled with a final settlement in November and December as possible.  People will be more apt to settle to get money before Christmas than any other time during this process.  This is what he is banking on.
8.  Feinberg changes protocol on certain claims depending on whom the claim is from and how much the claim amount is.  (Favoritism)  I call it discrimination. 
9.  Original BP workers have a nickname for Feinberg.  “Lieberg” 
10.  Louisiana was the hardest hit and the outer marshes are still filled with freestanding oil.  Media is not permitted to enter some restricted areas to photograph these areas.
11.  GCCF workers work 14 12-hour days with one day off.  Or two full days a month off.  This is going to change to 6 days off per month in the next few weeks. 
12.  The Moratorium in the Gulf is not a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.  It is a result of some political dealings with a Brazilian company dumping a whole lot of money in Washington and they are permitted to drill in the Atlantic but not the Gulf of Mexico.  Someone fattened some bank accounts in Washington and the Oil spill was Washingtons way of closing down the Gulf until they could get the Brazilian company situated to take over the Gulf of Mexico oil rights. 

I had no way of writing things down so by the best of my memory I have stated everything I could remember from our two-hour conversation.  The original BP workers from what the GCCF processor has told me they want Feinberg out faster than Tony Hayward.  That Feinberg only has the best interest of his company and a select few during this claims process.  I was on Flight 3205 from Charlotte NC to New Orleans in seat 13D.  The GCCF processor was in Seat 13C.  There was a man in seat 12C that was ease dropping and he had access to a pen and used the catalog provided in the back of the seat of him and he was taking notes.  The man in 12C was able to get off the plane before I could get my carry on out of the rack above and when I reached the airport corridor he was no where to be found.  He took lots of notes and I’m really hoping he was part of a press core or business owner.  (If he is part of Feinbergs team I’m sure this young man will be fired immediately for talking)  There are enough things here to get any good reporter started on a story that could change the outcome of how people are being treated here on the Gulf.  I will state again.  Nothing I have written here is false.  I will go before any court of this land and take as many lie detector tests needed.

Thank You Rachel I believe you but there is one thing I want to comment on. It says on GCCF website where we check our statis under townhall meeting that Feinberg is holding a meeting Sept 13. I live to far away from there and the meeting do not get anything done so it doesn’t matter anyway. It sure hurts doesn’t to just read under review.

Ok, people I have a suggestion that can possibly help us all, but we must all be in this together!  It does no good for business owners in Alabama to only take care of theirs or Louisiana to take care of their peers or us here in Florida to take care of only their peers.  I have been able to speak with some people and as Rachel referred to as document and delay is very true and real.  So here is my suggestion:  I have a few friends who work as producers for CNN and MSNBC We need to tell our stories, because they are under the impression that people were getting paid Here’s where your help is needed I am not savvy enough on the computer but we need a petition and for all of us to sign this electronic petition(need help setting that up).  The media is unaware of what’s happening because they work on current news cycle and don’t follow the progress because the well is capped.  So I am going to post my personal email address and anyone who can or is willing to help you can email me, but please only responsible emails please!  Also the media doesn’t know that business owners and large claims are not getting paid.  SO WE (all of us) have to refuse to go down without a fight.  We have to continue to work with ProPublica and television media to get our point across.  This is getting to be a very old and tired process.  So we can all band together here is my email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and as soon as we get a petition and signatures from business owners and individuals then I can forward this along with this article to start television in our favor. People we are going to need all the help we can get we need to be in this together.

Marsh~

I’m not able to make that meeting as well.  I would like to see if he allows cameras or video of that meeting.  Hopefully someone will tell us.  The GCCF rep didn’t say he wasn’t going to do anymore meetings just no more cameras or videos in those meetings.  He has spun a web of lies and doesn’t want to get caught in anymore of them.

I THOUGHT THESE WERE TO BE EMERGENCY PAYMENTS, THIS IS NO EMERGENCY PAYMENTS,WHY IS THIS NEWS COMPANY DOING MORE FOR US

People please can we all work together.  It’s ridiculous that we sit here and point at the political process as to why we are not getting justice.  What I mean is that Feinberg was appointed by Bush Administration for 9/11 funds, now a Democratic party appoints him to do the same for us, so obviously we can’t point to who has a R or D in front to get us justice.  Obviously people don’t think before they post and just look to point a finger,  In this case the finger should be pointed at BP and Mr. Feinbert on this process and how it’s being handled.  This is why they can treat us this way is because we afre so divided as citizens and a country we can’t get together long enough to even fight for a common cause.  There are Democrats who aren’t being paid, Republicans who aren’t being paid, Independents who are being paid and people who don’t care about politics who aren’t being paid.  So the point is this is a process issue, and for those who look at the White House at least he got them to put the funds up and those funds are in a bank, but the only problem now is process and Mr. Feinberg’s promise to us.  I do doubt any other party or politician would have bothered to make them do that much.  Not that I’m an apologist for politicians, but people we are all the same look in the mirror no one of are paid so please stop with the political bickering and fingerpointing and get on deck with the real problem.  PROCESS and GREED!

Well it looks like our good friends at GCCF didn’t approve any new claims over Labor Day Weekend.  If you look at the GGCF Program Statistics (tab on home GCCF homepage), there was no change from Sept 4th-Sept 6th in the number of claims approved.  So much for working 24/7 to help all of us affected by the spill.

Has anyone had a 6 month claim paid that was the amount of money they asked for?  I heard about the D&D file a week ago.  This is a rumor, but I heard all individual claims over $5000 go in the D&D.  I also heard to refile for 1 month instead of 6 and your claim will probably be paid in 2 days.  I really don’t believe that.  Anyway, still waiting, today is 2 weeks since filing….

well its day 15 and the only thing i know diffrent is that gccf has new eligability criteria so says there email to me and that whatever bp was paying me per month has no bearing on what i will get so says there email to me but they said if i was not happy with there emegency payment(if thats what you want to call it) some emergency hu! that im welcome to file for a final payment so says there email to me so i ask just what is the new eligability criteria they tell me in there emails that im sorry all i can tell you is your claim is under review so says there emails to me bp was paying me$ 6,048 a month i exspect the same from gccf not a penny more or less thats what my documents prove to bp and it should be enough documents for gccf. I have saved all emails about twenty of nothing but apoligys and we dont have that information. I also ask how are they calculating and coming up with the figure to send out for a monthly payment? and of corse more apoligys we dont have that information.I really wish the press would contact me for a transcript of our communications with gccf .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) To whome it may concern myself and many other commerciel fisherman would like wwl4 OR ANY NEWS CHANNELS, to take up a topic on MR.fienbergs claim program i hate to keep beating a dead horse but he first explained it would take 24hrs to review a claim once all the documents was in there system and then we would have a notice on our claim or a check within 48hrs after the review mine has been under review for 6 days now it took them 7 days to scan my documents into there system i filed my claim august 23 @ 10:46 am online with the gulf coast claims facility and as is got closer to the day he took over he changed his story to it could take as little as 48hrs to recieve a check well,then it changed to you would recieve notice or a check after our claims or reviewed and did not give a time line on how long that would take as it turns out its been 11 days for myself and many other fisherman and we still know nothing i feel he has misled the general public and the commercial fisherman of the gulf coast i previosly made two trips to the grand isle bp claims center with my documents the first trip i recieved a payment of 5,000 the 2nd trip i brought more document to prove my earnings and they increased my monthly payment by over a thousand dollars in a very timely fashion bp was much faster than this new program i feel the urgancy of this matter is fading you see shrimping season has opened but the problem is we have no sales for our product and wholsale dock prices are low because ther is no longer a good market on the shrip harvested in louisiana waters some docks are turning shrimpers away i carry a fresh products license wich also allows me to sell to the general public at retail prices but we have no more clientel willing to puchase our louisiana shrimp and it doesn’t look like MR.Fienbergs plan is working to well we need someone to investagate and run some airtime on this matter thankyou looking foward to hearing from you to ad a foot note to all this i have sent gccf 15 emails voiceing my concerns and questions some they have responded to some they have not and half of the ones they did respond to didnt even spell my name correctly or either called me some one else and never did they answer any of my questions

Do you have something to say to Ken Feinberg? 
Here is his contact information:
Email Address:  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Washington Office:  202-371-1110
New York Office:  212-527-9600

This is all public records. 

I have instructed my assistant to call both numbers four times every hour and let them know she will keep calling until we have a result on our claim.  If another week goes by with out any response again I have instrusted her to call every five minutes and just ask how the weather is to tie up their lines and piss them off as much as they have pissed us off.  I’m paying her now to do nothing while our company is shut down.  Why not put her to work on the phones.  If they don’t answer leave a very very very long message each time.

I sent Mr Feinberg a letter yesterday about my claim to the above email, waiting to get a reply. I also believe the national press is the key to unlock the safe. Mr. Feinberg gave a press release last week about how much faster claims were being processed, There have been a handful of news stories on the slow process but the national media like FOX news is the ticket. MSNBC doesn’t have the viewers. I will send my story to FOX. Has anyone contacted their local congressmen or senators? I did and am waiting for replies. I know under BP my congresswoman was very helpful.

Called the GCCF 800 line again I only get the same line of BS “claim in review” “we are working hard” “we have no info on how long the process will take” bla bla bla.

Note: I attempted to post the following comment approximately 4 hours ago. If this appears as a repeated comment, I apologize to the readers.
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Merely focusing on how claims are being handled by GCCF is a waste of time and energy. GCCF employs the traditional “delay, deny, defend” strategy used by insurance companies. Ultimately, BP oil spill victims will most likely be compensated by the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund or via litigation.

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
Fortunately, there is no need for GCCF. A victim may merely present a claim for damages to BP and wait 90 days. If BP does not pay the claim, the victim may present the claim to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (the Fund). The Fund could either pay the victim the amount owed or provide a temporary loan to the victim and then the U.S. Attorney General may commence an action on behalf of the Fund against BP and collect the amount from BP. “Any person, including the Fund, who pays compensation pursuant to OPA to any claimant for damages shall be subrogated to all rights, claims, and causes of action that the claimant has under any other law.” 33 U.S.C. § 2715

Litigation
Each individual claimant/potential plaintiff who has suffered damages as a result of the BP oil spill of April, 2010 should immediately seek competent legal counsel to directly represent his or her interests. Given that the damages suffered by the vast majority of individual potential plaintiffs as a result of the BP oil spill of April, 2010 are potentially so great and will be on-going, class treatment may not be necessary to permit effective litigation of the claim. Here, when the amount of damages suffered by the individual is so great, the filing of an individual lawsuit should be economically feasible and may be in the best interests of the plaintiff. This decision should be made by the potential plaintiff only after a thorough consultation with his or her legal counsel.

Victims of the BP oil spill should know their legal rights.

The following articles may help:

http://donovanlawgroup.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/the-gulf-coast-claims-facility-limits-bps-liability-and-guarantees-the-oil-companys-continued-operation-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/

http://donovanlawgroup.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/bp-oil-spill-of-april-2010-why-class-action-lawsuits-may-not-be-in-the-best-interests-of-potential-plaintiffs/