(AP) - WASHINGTON-Families of the Virginia Tech students and faculty gunned down by another student would receive larger payments and benefits than originally envisioned under a final proposal for distributing more than $7 million in contributions received by the university.

The proposal submitted by consultant Kenneth Feinberg, who also administered the U.S. government's victim compensation fund after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, calls for payments of $180,000 to families of those killed by South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho in the April shootings. The initial plan called for payments of $150,000.

Feinberg made the changes after meeting with victims' families who were angry about how the university's administration handled the aftermath of the shootings, and the changes he made were designed to reflect some of those concerns.

Under the new plan, those who survived but were hospitalized more than 10 days would get $90,000 (€66,220), plus free tuition while pursuing a degree at Virginia Tech. The initial plan called for $75,000.

Others hospitalized for at least three days would be eligible for smaller sums of money and free tuition while those in the building where the killings occurred, at the time of the shooting, would be eligible for a $10,000 cash payment or free tuition while pursuing a degree.

Cho killed himself following the attack.

Feinberg estimated that such a payment plan would essentially exhaust the $7.1 million raised under a memorial fund. The fund would be kept open until the end of the year to receive additional contributions.