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FEMA asking disabled, elderly residents to repay aid from superstorm Sandy
AP, via FoxNews ^ | November 9, 2014 | AP, via FoxNews

Posted on 11/10/2014 6:08:14 AM PST by Timber Rattler

The residents of Belle Harbor Manor spent four miserable months in emergency shelters after Superstorm Sandy's floodwaters surged through their assisted-living center on New York City's Rockaway peninsula.

Now, the home's disabled, elderly and mostly poor residents have a new headache: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked at least a dozen of them to pay back thousands of dollars in disaster aid.

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osenberg said the FEMA workers who urged him to apply for assistance during the period when residents were staying at the armory never explained that the money could only be used for housing.

"Everyone asked, 'Do we have to pay this back later on? Is it a loan?' They said, 'No. It's a gift from Obama,'" he said. "If I wasn't eligible, then why give it to me in the first place? They knew we were living in an adult home. They knew our shelter was being paid for by the state. It's not like we lied on the application."

At the time, it wasn't clear how long they would be in the shelter, or where they would go next.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fema; obama; sandy
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To: Timber Rattler
They said, 'No. It's a gift from Obama,'" he said.

"Can I get that in writing, signed and dated?" Would've been the question of the day...

Any bets on the answer?

21 posted on 11/10/2014 8:03:33 AM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--because we won! Cry me ANOTHER river?)
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To: Timber Rattler

Obama lied. No there was no free housing, no free food, no free disaster relief.

And he picks on people who have no means of repayment.

The Democrats no longer need their votes, so...


22 posted on 11/10/2014 8:13:29 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: W.
My Question, being the optimist I'm not is, what is the predominant color and political affiliation of the people being asked to repay the money? Yes I know the question of whether or not they should have taken it to begin with is still out there.
23 posted on 11/10/2014 8:22:41 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

We both KNOW without having to look there’s probably a 0.000000000001% of any being black democrats. All they showed was one poor ol’ whiteboy...


24 posted on 11/10/2014 8:28:10 AM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--because we won! Cry me ANOTHER river?)
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To: Mouton

re: Obama giveth,(before election) and Obama taketh away, (after election)

Exactly!


25 posted on 11/10/2014 8:39:34 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: Timber Rattler

FEMA should be destroyed.


26 posted on 11/10/2014 8:40:54 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Soon FEMA will be gunning down innocent black teens.


27 posted on 11/10/2014 8:42:42 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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