FEMA ordered to restart Katrina payments
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For the second time in eight days, a judge ordered the Bush administration to immediately resume making housing payments to thousands of families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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Victims of the spring&#39;s severe storms, which brought flooding to the state, have until Monday evening to apply for disaster assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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A judge has ordered the Bush administration to restore housing-relief payments it revoked in a "Kafkaesque" process for thousands of Gulf Coast residents displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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President Bush has asked Congress  for an extra $887.4 million in hurricane aid, bringing to $13.8  billion the amount requested, with most of it going to the  presidential election battleground state of Florida.
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Only $1 billion of the $77 billion the city is seeking from the Army Corps of Engineers is for infrastructure damages it says it suffered because of levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina. The rest is for such things as the city's tarnished image and tourist industry losses.
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The federal government on Friday approved Mississippi's plan to divert $600 million in hurricane housing funds to a port improvement project, angering critics who say tens of thousands of people made homeless by Hurricane Katrina still need help.
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Fraud involving payments supposed to help victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita likely exceeds earlier estimates of $1 billion and only a tiny fraction of the money has been recovered, according to a U.S. government report released on Wednesday.
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Many initial estimates by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the cost of repairing thousands of water-logged buildings, cracked pipes and crumbling streets in hurricane-staggered Louisiana were way too low &#151; and some reconstruction projects are being held up because of it.
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Efforts to find two children who went missing with other family members during storms are to resume at first light.
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In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton once again criticized President Bush and the Federal Emergency Management Agency for their response to Hurricane Katrina, re-emphasizing on Monday her plan for Gulf Coast recovery.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has changed its policy and will provide some reimbursement for homeowners who spent their own money to elevate hurricane-damaged houses above flood level.
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After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many business leaders complained that despite contributions of $1.2 billion in relief or services, too many efforts to help the U.S. disaster response were thwarted by red tape.
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The Department of Water Resources will resume limited pumping at its  Harvey O. Banks Delta pump Sunday, June 10 to meet critical water supply  needs.
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A week after Hurricane Katrina, a FEMA official in charge of streamlining the flow of disaster aid issued a directive that would have cut through the red tape and expedited a staggering 1,029 rebuilding projects and $5.3 billion.
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State officials will step in and help local communities if they are overwhelmed during a disaster &#151; as they were in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit &#151; according to a new Homeland Security Department plan that tries to clarify who's in charge during emergencies.
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State Farm Mutual has reached an agreement with the Mississippi Insurance Commissioner to reopen disputed cases involving homes destroyed in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the insurer said on Wednesday.