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# FEMA benefits cut - again.
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18739/
- Published: 2006-12-01T12:12:09.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:40.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**by Jessica Reed**

From the [Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901275.html?ref=opendemocracy.net): 

*The Bush administration unconstitutionally denied aid to tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita and must resume payments immediately, a federal judge ordered yesterday.*

Read [Jim Garbour](http://www.jimgabour.com/jg01.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)'s series about post-Hurricane New Orleans on openDemocracy [here](../../../author/Jim%5FGabour.jsp).