Persons who already received payments for emergency and did not intend to request more money from the Fund may sign the final version can be paid to do - individuals will receive $5,000 within 14 days of the signature, said Mr. Feinberg and companies will get $25 000.
"Every single claimant will have a choice," he said. "They should adjust the choice of their own situation."
Last month, Mr. Feinberg closed applications in the first phase of the Fund: payments emergency to individuals and businesses.
He settled in the second phase of the final payment, where people who do not want to continue the prosecution will be able to settle for an amount agreed in the past and future loss of spill. This agreement is delivered with a final lump-sum settlement, but also a promise not step to bring an action BP or other persons involved in the discharge.
To facilitate the transition, Mr. Feinberg announced at that time, victims of the spill could submit quarterly payments, such as emergency payments have no limitation on the right to sue BP more later.
Mr. Feinberg says that he intended to make the official announcement Monday in the additional signature bonus ride at the final settlement plan. "This is simply a way to close the file in their own particular circumstances and pass", he said.
He suggested that the candidates would choose you for payment may be those who had received emergency fund and determined that their losses were already fully covered by Fund of BP, or who believe that they can properly documenting more losses.
To help make this decision, he said, his team will make available free of charge legal advice and add staff to fund local centres help people complete their forms to the final claims.
The justice department had urged Mr. Feinberg month last to clear the backlog of claims by Wednesday. Mr. Feinberg said that his team had met this objective pay approximately 164,000 applications more than 450,000 trademark.
This means that more than 200 000 others were refused, mainly because of poor documentation or no documentation for their claim at all. Approximately 2,000 claims are "highly suspicious", said Mr. Feinberg, and good number of those returned to organizations of repression, which last week has begun to issue any indictments.
M. said Feinberg who had been refusing requests for emergency would be able to collect more comprehensive documentation and file for permanent claims.
"Size does not fit all", he said. "Each claimant should carefully consider your options."
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