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To: sandintoes who wrote (755895)	12/10/2006 12:39:08 PM
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GAO says taxpayers are Katrina 'victims' December 10, 2006 USA Today indystar.com The government continues to waste tens of millions of dollars in its Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, including giving rent checks to evacuees already living in free housing and student aid to ineligible foreigners, U.S. investigators said this past week. The Government Accountability Office also found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been able to recoup only $7 million of the more than $1 billion in improper payments identified by investigators months ago. "The taxpayers are the new victims here," the GAO's Greg Kutz told the Senate Homeland Security Committee during the fourth and final hearing into government waste, fraud and abuse related to Katrina. Also identified among the latest examples of waste were duplicate payments to people claiming the same damage to their homes from two hurricanes. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who heads the committee, called the new revelations about FEMA "truly alarming." The GAO reported that FEMA spent: • Nearly $17 million in improper or fraudulent rental payments to evacuees already living for free in trailers provided by the agency. • Nearly $20 million in double payments to people who claimed damage to the same property from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. • $3 million to more than 500 foreign students who are ineligible for aid. • $156,000 to 25 foreign workers in the United States on temporary work visas. Copyright 2006 IndyStar.com. All rights reserved

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