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Posted: 8:43 PM Jun 21, 2008
FEMA Gives Out Free Rent
FEMA paying out disaster relief without even seeing some homes.
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Wisconsin residents applying for federal disaster relief may have one month's rent paid by the government if their homes can't be reached by federal inspectors.
Usually a home has to be inspected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to receive disaster aid. But some residents' homes remain inaccessible due to standing floodwaters.
Inspectors who can't reach a home will record the occupant's name and address. Then FEMA's Temporary Housing Program will forward a check to the applicant.
Heavy storms earlier this month caused widespread flooding across southern Wisconsin. Twenty-two counties have been declared federal disaster areas.
Early estimates suggest the damage topped $470 million. As of Saturday, FEMA had paid out $1 million in disaster aid.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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