FEMA

The Hurricane Sandy Task Force created to identify and correct problems with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Insurance Program  meet today for the first time in Washington, D.C., and the head of the Ocean County Long Term Recovery Group has been invited to speak on behalf of non-profit organizations.

By the end of April, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is expected to mail notices to all policy holders who filed claims with its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) on how to appeal or request a review in light of allegations of fraud and questionable engineering reports that led to underpayments and denials, according to Paul Weberg, Senior Engineer with FEMA Region II in New York.

The Ocean County Long Term Recovery Group is encouraged after a recent meeting with Federal Emergency Management Officials (FEMA) in New York City, according to Sue Marticek, Executive Director of the non-profit agency.

Three of the latest four applicants charged with collecting federal Superstorm aid under false pretenses have ties to the Jersey Shore.

As long as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is willing to review any Sandy-related flood insurance case for discrepancies, homeowners who filed should take them up on it. That's the advice given by shore Representative Tom MacArthur (R-3).

There's federal grant money still available to outfit gas stations along New Jersey's evacuation routes with back-up generators and quick-connects to keep them operating during a major disaster.

New Jersey U.S. Senator Bob Menendez meets with Superstorm Sandy victims today in a press conference to outline new measures aimed at cleaning up the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Menendez said he's gotten assurances from FEMA Deputy Associate Administrator Brad Kieserman that they will collect and make available to every policy holder all alterations of engineering reports...

Listen to Entire Interview A bold and surprising assertion about The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from New Jersey's 3rd District (R) Congressman Tom MacArthur. The freshman representative, who's made his fortune in the insurance industry, alleges that FEMA wasn't a hapless government agency that stood idly by while observing the "big bad" insurance companies taking advantag

Growing evidence of awareness inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of alleged insuror fraud aimed at short-changing Superstorm Sandy-ravaged homeowners prompts shore Congressman Tom MacArthur (R-3) to seek FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate's resignation.

If you live in a federally-designated flood zone, do you know what flood insurance will cost when the maps are finalized?