WH holiday greetings to Katrina victims: FEMA appeals order to pay.

[partylessinOhio]

Imagine having your housing payments put on hold before Christmas: FEMA may ask an appeals court to put the judge's ruling on hold while the appeal plays out. ...



FEMA appeals Katrina housing order

17 minutes ago

The Bush administration is challenging a court order requiring it to make housing payments to thousands of families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said last week that confusing, often contradictory letters to hurricane victims from the Federal Emergency Management Agency didn't explain why housing funding was cut. He said that violated the Constitution, and he ordered the agency to restart the program immediately.

FEMA said Tuesday it would appeal that ruling.

The government is still under a court order to make housing payments for people displaced by last year's storm, but the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which won last week's ruling, said in court documents Tuesday that FEMA has refused to disclose its plans for restarting the program.

FEMA may ask an appeals court to put the judge's ruling on hold while the appeal plays out. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_housing_1



A truck sits under a damaged house in the Ninth Ward area of New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina struck.

[acmejack]

1. No, you Godless heathen!

That's Merry Christmas!!!