SOMEBODY has to pay for it! We only subsidize oil companies:
NEW YORK (AP) — The residents of Belle Harbor Manor spent four miserable months in emergency shelters after Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged through their assisted-living center on New York City’s Rockaway peninsula.
Now, the home’s disabled, elderly and mostly poor residents have a new headache: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked at least a dozen of them to pay back thousands of dollars in disaster aid.
Robert Rosenberg, 61, was among the Belle Harbor Manor residents who recently got notices from FEMA informing them that they had retroactively been declared ineligible for aid checks they received two years ago in the storm’s immediate aftermath. The problem, the letters said, was that the money was supposed to have been spent on temporary housing, but that never happened because the residents were moved from one state-funded shelter to another.
FEMA gave Rosenberg until Nov. 15 to send a refund check for $2,486 or file an appeal.
Why did the Obama administration send its Justice Department flunkie to defend itself against Larry Klayman’s suit against the NSA’s spying program last Tuesday? Because Obama wants to allow the NSA to spy on whomever it wants and whenever it wants to. There are no criminals in the 1% class. They reside only in the 99% class. 61 year old Rosenberg will soon find himself entangled in the federal justice system unless he promptly pays FEMA back. Poor sap.
Although I’m sure that FEMA can set up an equitable repayment schedule and even waive repayment, I’m sure some Teabagger mole is posturing for the new Rethug Congress. Can’t those worthless ‘takers’ get away with anything you know. The Koch brothers need another house.