Back pay: Miami wants FEMA to cut check for 2005 hurricane damage
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- Back pay: Miami wants FEMA to cut check for 2005 hurricane damage
- FEMA details on Texas Katrina victims posted online
- Texas extends health coverage for children
Back pay: Miami wants FEMA to cut check for 2005 hurricane damage
Miami Today FL
Three years after the devastating 2005 hurricane season left the US with more than $100 billion in damage the City of Miami awaits reimbursement for debris-collection expenses that total $9. At this month’s commission meeting Diana Gomez Miami’s director of finance said the city still awaits reimbursement from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA after submitting requested paperwork. The city incurred millions in extra expenses after paying contractors to pick up debris and clean up the destruction left behind by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. As of September 2008 the amount due in hurricane-related expenses to the city was calculated at $9.
FEMA details on Texas Katrina victims posted online
Houston Chronicle United States
html DALLAS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is investigating how personal information from about 16000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Texas ended up online. FEMA spokesman Terry Monrad in Washington told The Associated Press early today that the information involved evacuees from Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama. All sought FEMA assistance after Katrina hit the Gulf coast in August 2005. The individuals are being contacted by phone and mail plus will receive 18 months of a security monitoring service. Monrad declined to identify which Web sites posted the information which he says has been removed at FEMA’s request.
Texas extends health coverage for children
Houston Chronicle United States
The extension begins Jan. State officials had said thousands of children living in Hurricane Ike-devastated areas were in danger of losing health coverage in 2009 because they had not re-enrolled in government health insurance programs. The agency surveyed more than 100 southeast Texas families and one in four said they never received a renewal form agency spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said. f those who did receive the form nearly 80 percent said they returned it she said. Goodman said the state has been unable to determine why the forms weren’t received at the postal boxes used by an enrollment center. The extension does not apply in cases where the state received the application and determined that the family was not eligible Goodman said.
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