FEMA overpaid $12 million for hurricane relief in Florida, agency says

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2005


FEMA overpaid $12 million for hurricane relief in Florida, agency says

BY MEGAN O'MATZ AND SALLY KESTIN

South Florida Sun-Sentinel


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - While defending its handling of disaster assistance in Miami-Dade County, Fla., the Federal Emergency Management Agency revealed Monday that it overpaid $12 million in hurricane relief to 3,500 Floridians and is trying to recoup the money.

The agency blamed the problem on a "computer glitch."

Four days after a U.S. Senate committee announced an investigation into allegations of fraud and abuse in FEMA payments throughout the country, the agency went on the defensive.

In a telephone news conference, FEMA officials said they have done a good job responding to the unprecedented four hurricanes that hit Florida last year and have found no fraud in Miami-Dade. The agency paid out nearly $30 million in damage claims in the county for Hurricane Frances, the Labor Day storm that made landfall more than 100 miles to the north.
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http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/nation/10612919.htm

[MSgt213]

1. Well they are just as bad as the UN were's Coleman and the Freepers

[EFerrari]

3. Have to hand it to the Bush family. Glitch masters non pareil n/t

[Cha]

2. Do they make them any

Fat Cattier than that Fascist Governor in Florida?

[mr_hat]

4. Not ONE PENNY of which will

go toward Jeb '08. NOT ONE!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. It's graft. Don't let them fool you. It's graft.

[tsuki]

6. Up here, FEMA was going door to door to give out money. I never

saw this during Opal.

[roenyc]

7. the family should be run out of the country.

[canadianbeaver]

13. Please......Please......Please...I will help them pack......n/t

[dbt]

8. Wait. We can trust computers to count our votes,

but we can't trust them with our money? As the Great Rusholini is so fond of saying,

"You can't have it both ways."

:freak:
dbt

"Computer glitch," my shiny metal ass!

[durablend]

9. But we've got plenty of money for Iraq...

And Halliburton, and coronations, and ... etc

Can't have those common Merukins thinkin there rich or nuthin!

[Supersedeas]

10. if it smells like it, looks like it and feels like it-probably is dirty $

[spanone]

11. Bush* is becoming synonymous with 'computer-glitch'

[seasat]

12. Of course they want the money back.

The election is over. I predicted to friends that the only good thing about the number of hurricances this year was that because of the election and FL being a swing state, they'd go overboard with the aid. Now that the election is over, they're going to tighten back up. Shrub Inc knew they had to buy this election.