FEMA wants to recoup $1.26 million in Rita aid
Texas ? The federal government is asking 625 people in Texas to pay back a total of $1.26 million in recovery aid they shouldn’t have received after Hurricane Rita.
Texas families received more than $592 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the September storm.
Most of the money FEMA wants – $1.14 million – was incorrectly paid for damage to homes that were not the owners’ primary residences, agency spokeswoman Hannah Vick said. Damages to secondary residences are ineligible for FEMA money.
In other cases, the same person received multiple $2,000 FEMA payments, or multiple people from the same household received the $2,000.






