Half Of Hurricane Harvey Victims Say FEMA Application Was Denied Or Is Still Pending
Style Magazine Newswire | 12/8/2017, 7:22 a.m.
Source: Huffington Post
Months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, wreaking havoc on swathes of the state, almost half of affected residents say they’re still “not getting the help” they need, according to a new survey. Conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Episcopal Health Foundation between Oct. 17 and Nov. 20, the survey found that many Harvey victims across 24 Texas counties were still struggling with financial woes and health problems in the aftermath of the disaster. Almost 30 percent of impacted residents, for instance, said they’d fallen behind in paying their rent or mortgage after Harvey. One in four respondents said they were having problems paying for food. Of the more than 1,600 respondents to the survey, two-thirds said they’d personally suffered property damage or income loss because of Harvey. One in 9 of those affected said they were still displaced from their homes at the time of the survey.
