How long should FEMA pay displaced storm survivors ? It's only been 18 months?

Question

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to adequately explain why it ended the 18-month housing assistance program for people who lost their homes in the 2005 storm.
~~And now for the fraud some commited against the taxpayers~~
To dramatize the problem, GAO provided lawmakers with a copy of a $2,358 U.S. Treasury check for rental assistance that an undercover agent got using a bogus address.
The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting hoodwinked to pay for football season tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found.

Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address, and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel all were able to wrongly get taxpayer help, according to evidence that gives a new black eye to the nation’s disaster relief agency.

Federal investigators even informed Congress that one man apparently used FEMA assistance money for a sex change operation.

Answer 1

The bad thing about this, really there are still alot of innocent people that are displaced, looking for jobs (in which our state doesn't have because the economy and crime is so high), and have no permanent place to call home. I have a family that lives down the street that lost everything because they lived in St. Bernard parish, and can't find the same paying job in our parish....so they are still living in a pop-up camper.
It was disgusting that these people were doing all these things with the FEMA card (some even bought wide screen TVs while they were in the Cajun Dome for a shelter!) because of this abuse there are still hard working people out there that don't deserve to live the way they have to.

Answer 2

You ask that you want to know if it is legal for an employer not to raise the rate of pay for a contractor / temp for a period longer than 12 months. Did you mean "contractor", then of-course, you do not deserve anything more than the contract rate. Contract Law is different, but how do you say "pay/rate rise", If there is such a clause in the Contract Agreement, it is illegal. (that the Employer would give a pay/rate rise in every 6/12/18/24 months) and you can claim. Otherwise you can claim and depend on the Union so as to flatten the employer, as the Keralites do since independence at the places wherever they goes.

Answer 3

And then people from New Orleans wonders why we feel they could just rot in their chocolate town..,us taxpayers are sick of them ripping us off and then laughing about it.Wonder if the judge was from Chocolate town as well?This subject really pizzes me off,I have lived in Corpus Christi and when we had a hurricane,we had the sense god gave us to leave.And I didnt have a car either and two children..,I had friends that got me out of town.I never asked for the govt for help..I helped myself.Personal responsibility.

Answer 4

i believe all of it and its a shame that people do things like that. the next time we have a disaster just watch and see how hard it will be to get help when you need it.

Answer 5

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