FEMA offers up to $4,000 as lure, but aid will eventually be cutoff

[dajoki]

FEMA Offers Up to $4,000 as Home Lure for Storm Victims
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Published: October 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/washington/16fema.html?_r=1&ei=5088&en=84c99b9eb48ec6d5&ex=1350273600&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1192595040-raljTabBtw6W4DBR7LLLDw

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Applicants for the reimbursements need to be already registered and receiving disaster assistance for damaged housing in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas. They may not have already received more than the current total assistance cap of $26,200. And they may not have received any other relocation aid.

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To obtain the relocation money, those in trailers and the other mobile homes would need to move into FEMA-financed or private housing anywhere in the continental United States.

Recipients of agency rent subsidies would have to move to nonsubsidized permanent housing at least 50 miles from their current locations.

People living anywhere now without agency aid would need to relocate to permanent housing in the storm-damaged state that they fled, but at least 50 miles away if they have already returned home.

Relocation costs eligible for reimbursement, the agency said, are air, bus or train fares, rental vehicles, furniture movers and gasoline, as well as lodging expenses if the move is more than 400 miles. Transportation costs for boats, recreational vehicles and other large luxury items are not covered, the agency said.

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If the relocation payments are a carrot, the government also has a stick. Beginning in March, the Disaster Housing Assistance Program will reduce rental aid by $50 a month "with the goal of leading families closer to complete housing independence," meaning an eventual aid cutoff.

[aquart]

1. They have no interest in reality at all.

[dajoki]

2. $4000 will be a real help...

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: