The Associated Press reports that as of early September, FEMA had asked around 850 aid recipients to return a collective $5.8 million. Approximately 3,600 other cases were still under review.
FEMA's campaign to recover overpayments, called "recoupment" in agency lingo, typically involves inadvertent violations of eligibility rules, bureaucratic mistakes or missing documentation, rather than outright fraud.
Many people asked to return money were deemed ineligible because their damaged properties were vacation houses or rental properties, not their primary residences. Others had double dipped into the aid pool, with more than one household member getting payments. Some received FEMA money for things later covered by insurance.
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When "leadership" steals from the taxpayers, what do you expect? They're just following their "leaders". Look at the county, and city, here... fraud, zero oversight, leads to people stealing and never being held responsible. Rick and Jim have created a monster, da'bury will be da'troit in no time.
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