FEMA Wasting Millions in Katrina Aid, Audit Finds
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The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster help, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said  yesterday.
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It's the most expensive US recovery program ever, but local leaders complain that funds aren't getting to where they're most needed.
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FEMA and other US agencies seem to have improved their emergency response since the 2005 Katrina fiasco.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A new congressional report says the Environmental Protection Agency potentially exposed scores of residents, volunteers and workers to asbestos fibers by not doing more to monitor the contaminant in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina.
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The city is staged for a sustainable recovery from Hurricane Katrina's floods but a lack of affordable housing and other challenges could impede its progress, a demographer said in a new report.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations has wasted tens of millions of dollars in its peacekeeping operations in Sudan over the past three years, according to the findings of U.N. auditors examining the financial practices of the global body's overseas missions.
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A lack of housing is the Gulf Coast's top challenge on Hurricane Katrina's anniversary, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday during a tour of the region.
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A state program to help homeowners with hurricane damage will run out of money by year's end unless Congress steps in to fill the gap, an official said Tuesday.
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No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm &#151; and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response.
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The government should invest more money in understanding hurricanes because they are so deadly and expensive, according to a draft of a federal report released Friday.
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Charity volunteers have been overwhelmed by donations for hurricane victims.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19 -- Louisiana lags behind Mississippi in forwarding federal aid to cash-strapped communities after Hurricane Katrina, lending support to complaints by local officials in the New Orleans area that the state is holding up money they need for repairs and rebuilding.
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still sparsely populated.
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Months before Hurricane Katrina hit, the Small Business Administration deliberately shunned disaster planning that would have sped aid to thousands of companies in dire need, saying it would yield only "limited benefits," investigators say.
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US property and casualty insurers have paid out $21.3 billion for eight catastrophes damage, including hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, according to the data of the Jersey-based Insurance Services Office Inc.
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The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers  Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool