FEMA May Change Its Post-Hurricane Payouts
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People displaced by future hurricanes will probably not get the $2,000 federal handout that went to Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees last year, a FEMA official said. Details of that and other changes, he said, would be explained in a letter this week from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to the governors of the 12 coastal states vulnerable to Atlantic hurricanes.
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