OK. Well, we will work on that, and we will see if we can come up with some better language and a better Section 312.

It needs to be rewritten.

I think FEMA is doing much better. They have a better, more robust emergency management system.

There is an applicant who appears to owe $28,800, and the reason given is that he applied to receive assistance for a property that was not his primary residence.

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I do think that is important for us to know.

this does not make any sense; FEMA needs to do the basic checks on those claims.

Do you have a sense of how much it costs the government to try to recoup this money?

Just human nature being what it is, you are going to have some fraud here.

I do not think they are there yet, and I do not know if there is a ready State when FEMA is going to be there.

To me, when I hear numbers like that, it sounds like we have a chronic problem.