- It's got to be a Louisiana Graft - Corruption - Fraud
Record
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- Louisiana Road Home - 3 years, 6.4 BILLION to Disperse
1.5 Billion of Relief. It's got to be a Louisiana Graft - Corruption -
Fraud Record.
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- "LRA spokeswoman Christina Stephens offered assurances
that the program will meet its obligations. "Right now, we feel good
we'll be able to fund what we need to fund with the money we have, ..."
- http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090409/HURBLOG/904099997?Title=
- State-raises-cap-on-home-elevation-grants-to-100-000
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- "...including $7.9 billion for the Road Home program,
which provided cash grants to people whose homes were damaged in the flooding."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/us/05louisiana.html
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- April 9, 2009 - "The Road Home has paid $772 million
to 26,680 homeowners so far."
- http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090409/HURBLOG/904099997?Title=
- State-raises-cap-on-home-elevation-grants-to-100-000
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- "Once the state persuaded Congress to send another
$3 billion to bail out Road Home, and grant payout projections proved too
high, officials decided the program had $1 billion to restore the financing
of elevation grants."
- http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090409/HURBLOG/904099997?Title=
- State-raises-cap-on-home-elevation-grants-to-100-000
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- LRA - "The citizens of Louisiana can be proud of
what has been established in such a short period of time."http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5390496
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- Who wouldn't want that contract? Who couldn't do a better
job for MUCH LESS THAN THE 6.4 BILLION COST?
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- "Unfairly treated applicants include the following."
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- "Road Home Program applicants who were:
- left in limbo in dispute resolution, appeals, or the
PAL mediation for more than 4 months;
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- trying to appeal an RH mistake but not being allowed
to;
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- having to appeal without important documents being accepted
or considered by RH looked that would show a mistake in your grant;
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- having an appeal denied but RH has not given a specific
reason;
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- told or read the state's wrong appeal decision on their
grant was final or that if they lost a lawsuit and appeals they would have
to pay the state's attorneys fees;
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- discouraged from appealing because of misinformation
from an ICF or RH person;
- in limbo with their application made inactive with no
notice when this was done or explanation;
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- in limbo their application put in dispute resolution
even though they were not disputing the grant amount;
- underfunded by RH doing additional determinations of
their pre-storm value or estimated cost of damage after notifying the applicant
of their award amount without the applicant requesting these and then having
the grant amount decreased due to these new determinations;
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- having to appeal without a copy of the applicant's file
and thereby not being able to appeal effectively;
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- being denied written information about the amount of
the grant or why an appeal or dispute was denied;
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- being forced to give up an appeal in progress to get
an elevation grant;
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- being told that the applicant was qualified for an additional
compensation grant for low-income applicants and later told that they were
not qualify despite giving accurate information to RH;
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- underfunded because the grant amount decreased from what
was in the grant announcement at or just before closing without an adequate
explanation;
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- being denied a full copy of the applicant's own file;
- being told that their letters or papers were lost and
asked to resend the same information or documents more than twice;
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- in limbo with obvious uncorrected mistakes in the determination
of :
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- o estimated cost of damage,
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- o the subtraction of insurance or FEMA benefits when
they were not for structural damage,
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- o the pre-storm value that you were not able to appeal;
- waiting for more than 6 months for a specific answer:
- o about denial of a grant that you can prove you should
get according their rules,
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- o about still waiting for an elevation grant that you
can prove you should get according their rules,
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- o promised funds won on appeal,
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- o about a mistake that RH made in the calculation of
the applicant's grant."
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- http://chatushome.com
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- "Ehrlich further encouraged homeowners to take the
extra step of requesting access to their entire Road Home file. Some applicants
who have managed to see their files have discovered that Road Home was
collecting multiple estimates of their home's pre-storm value -- and using
the lowest one to calculate their award, even though official program policies
said the highest one was supposed to be used, Ehrlich said.
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- She said she's been gathering dozens of examples of applicants
who were denied their right to their files -- sometimes, apparently, because
they didn't refer to the specific policy change that allowed them to do
it. She said anyone requesting their full file should reference policy
CP-189(a) to hold the Road Home to the new disclosure rules."
- http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/elevation_grant_rules_change.html
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- http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2009/07/67787.php
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- Ed Ward, MD
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