[kcvl]

December 12, 2006

In 2005 FEMA determined, pursuant to a presidential disaster declaration, that the evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita qualified for short-term housing rental assistance under Section 403 of the Stafford Act. However, in February of this year, FEMA attempted to transfer those evacuees that were eligible to its longer-term Section 408 housing program, which provides up to 18 months of housing assistance to disaster evacuees. During this transfer process, FEMA would ultimately deny the Section 408 applications of thousands of evacuees, and after 30 days notice, terminate their Section 403 benefits.

The court ordered the aid restored retroactively, so affected families are to receive checks for past payments from Sept. 1 to now, and continued assistance until February 2007, or until FEMA gives them adequate notice of why they were ineligible. The ruling affects families mostly in Texas and Louisiana who received FEMA rental assistance.

[BBell]

Thank you for your post. So FEMA was to give them assistance until February of 2007. And then adequate notice must be given. So by not giving them written notice adequate notice was not given. So the judge is right in her ruling.

[cherry]

I've got a question....is there a limit to how much one can steal from the govt?..I mean, these people get medicaid/medicare and food stamps and free housing and they get welfare or SSi or full blown SS disability, the grand-daddy of them all and do they also get special "payments" because they lived in a rat infested hell-hole never meant for settlement?

is this costing me thousands of dollars per person each month?