I think it would be tremendously helpful for the government to give very specific, clear notice of what Congress's intent is as far as how each of those agencies should be.

Is the bulk of that in Louisiana?

Do you have any thoughts on why there are so many improper payments?

So when you have 168,000 cases, does that mean you have 168,000 payments?

This is not going to work, and what is going to happen is something is going to fall between the cracks.

I would like to request that you both do that analysis and try to give us a sense of how much it costs to recoup this money.

And are you finding incidents of fraud in this arrangement?

I think one of the biggest problems is that the Privacy Act makes it real difficult for Federal agencies to share information among themselves.

It seems like every time you turn on the TV or hear the news it is getting a little bit worse.

Do you think that the three agencies with the primary responsibility agree on what their roles should be, or is there a legitimate conflict or disagreement about how they should be working in these disasters?

We would like to look at that, and maybe if we can work through the process maybe we can develop some legislation on it.

For 5 years, 6 years, he has been totally unaware that he received this payment improperly?