Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money

[kpete]

Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
By JOHN MORENO GONZALES | Associated Press Writer
4:47 AM EDT, March 30, 2008

NEW ORLEANS - Imagine that your home was reduced to mold and wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government-provided trailer tainted with formaldehyde you finally win a federal grant.

Then a collector calls with the staggering news that you have to pay back thousands of dollars.

Thousands of Katrina victims may be in that situation.

A private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant program for Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Now it wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments.

more at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-katrina-collections,0,1584934.story

[Fridays Child]

1. They rushed financial aid to Katrina victims?

Gimme a freakin' break.

[NV Whino]

2. reminds me of bank errors

If the bank makes an error in their favor, you have 30 days to correct it.
If the bank makes an error in your favor, they can correct it any damned time they want.

[mac2]

3. Are we getting back our money from Bush contractors who did

fraud in New Orleans and the Gulf area?

[gateley]

4. Just when you think you couldn't hear anything MORE absurd than the last thing... nt