...ABC News watched as BP turned workers away from a claims center in Mobile, Alabama. They were told they didn't have the right paperwork -- the trip tickets, deposit slips, bank statements and tax returns needed.
Feinberg said he can fix the problem.
"We're going to make sure people get emergency money and accelerate the process," he said.
For Gulf Coast workers like deckhand Dan Wolfer, the relief can't come soon enough. He filed a claim a month ago but, so far, hasn't received a single check. Wolfer had to give up the family car after they couldn't make payments, and his wife is now walking to work.
For business owners who have received checks, like charter fishing captain Dave Joachim, the payments that have come have not covered their losses. He said he's lost more than $40,000 already, but his check from BP was for $5,000.
President Obama has been doing all he can to contain this crisis- posted by wellreak>>>>>>>>>That simply is NOT TRUE it took Obama Five weeks before he ordered his Army Corp of Engineers to issue permits to build barrier islands and keep oil out of the Marshes. In contrast it took Bush 5 days to respond to Katrina. On May 4th the Dutch offered oil skimmers, they were refused by the Obama Administration until THIS WEEK. Until this week the Administration refused to set aside the Jones Act and the clean water act, to allow these skimmers. The Dutch skimmers remove oil from the ocean and put back seawater with some oily residue back in the ocean and this violated the clean water act. In contrast using dispersants which dispersed the oil into the wetlands and marshes didn't violate the act. This was a government stuck on stupid and because Obama defaulted to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 for FIVE WEEKS he was right at the center of it. I read OPA1990 and in less than five minutes it became abundantly clear that this law was completely inadequate to deal with a disaster of this magnitude. The Obama Administration also issued a EIS waiver last year allowing BP to drill this well. More significantly the final decision to drill this well in the ROD record of decisions happened in January of this year. No EIS waiver no final decision this January this well still would not have been drilled. (my sources for all this are as follows, CNN, the Voice of America, the Washington Post and Radio Dutch Netherlands worldwide).
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Uh, that's why they appointed the new guy to dole out the escrow money. The question is what happens when that money runs out.
Note: fraud prevention is going to have to happen here, you can't just file a claim unless you're legitimately affected. Katrina had a lot of false claims.
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Josh Cryer wrote:Uh, that's why they appointed the new guy to dole out the escrow money. The question is what happens when that money runs out.
Note: fraud prevention is going to have to happen here, you can't just file a claim unless you're legitimately affected. Katrina had a lot of false claims.
You assume the government cares. Why should they? The states affected vote mostly conservative (Blue Dog Democrats and Republican) what is in it for the party in power?
Look at the incentives.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.