Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Disaster Relief FEMA Payments

From the GAO:

Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives

"We estimate that through February 2006, FEMA made about 16 percent or $1 billion in improper and potentially fraudulent payments to registrants who used invalid information to apply for disaster assistance. Based on our statistical sample, we are 95 percent confident that the range of improper and potentially fraudulent payments is from $600 million to $1.4 billion." 

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