U.S. officials have granted a request to extend housing assistance for survivors of catastrophic 2023 wildfires, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said. Nearly 1,000 households displaced by fire were anxiously awaiting word on whether federal assistance helping them stay housed will be left to expire, forcing them to find new housing or pay more for it […]
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Nearly 1,000 households displaced by catastrophic wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui are anxiously awaiting word on whether federal assistance helping them stay housed will be left to expire, forcing them to find new housing or pay more for it in one of the tightest and most expensive rental environments in the country. For
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The American Property Casualty Insurance Association and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies were among a handful of organizations to send a letter to federal lawmakers in support of a bill to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In a letter sent Dec. 9 to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives, APCIA and
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced another $33 million in Hurricane Helene recovery projects in North Carolina, bringing the agency’s total spending on public assistance grants since the storm to more than $1 billion. The funding is on top of more than $2 billion FEMA has provided to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for
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A federal grand jury in Miami has indicted U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and others, charging that they used federal disaster relief funds for her 2021 Congressional campaign. Federal prosecutors said Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, 51, of Miramar, in 2021 had obtained a COVID-19 vaccination contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for
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The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is departing his post after about six months on the job, according to the Washington Post. David Richardson resigned on Monday as FEMA’s acting head, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Richardson has served as the senior official performing the duties
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It did not taking long for one of the industry’s trade associations to spring to action following Congress’s return to work after a lengthy government shutdown. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) on Thursday called on U.S House leaders to pass a bipartisan bill containing sweeping reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that she fired two dozen employees from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a review determined significant flaws had allowed a hacker to access to FEMA’s network. The employees “brazenly neglected basic security protocols,” including “an agencywide lack of multifactor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix
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