Rhino
06-22-2006, 07:19 AM
FEMA Checks Eligibility of Hurricane Victims Living in Government-Issued Trailers
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
BILOXI, Miss. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is checking whether thousands of families in Mississippi and Louisiana are eligible for the government-issued trailers they're living in, but officials have stepped back from evicting hundreds of the families.
In Mississippi, FEMA sent out "termination notices" to around 500 of the 3,000 families the agency suspected were ineligible for travel trailers intended for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, according to agency spokesman Eugene Brezany.
Those letters, mailed in late April and early May, notified families that they had 30 days to vacate their trailers and 60 days to appeal the agency's ruling. However, Brezany said the agency has stopped mailing those notices — and the deadlines for families to vacate trailers no longer apply.
Instead, FEMA is meeting individually with families to determine whether they are eligible for emergency housing or must move out of their trailers and find more permanent housing........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200484,00.html
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
BILOXI, Miss. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is checking whether thousands of families in Mississippi and Louisiana are eligible for the government-issued trailers they're living in, but officials have stepped back from evicting hundreds of the families.
In Mississippi, FEMA sent out "termination notices" to around 500 of the 3,000 families the agency suspected were ineligible for travel trailers intended for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, according to agency spokesman Eugene Brezany.
Those letters, mailed in late April and early May, notified families that they had 30 days to vacate their trailers and 60 days to appeal the agency's ruling. However, Brezany said the agency has stopped mailing those notices — and the deadlines for families to vacate trailers no longer apply.
Instead, FEMA is meeting individually with families to determine whether they are eligible for emergency housing or must move out of their trailers and find more permanent housing........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200484,00.html