With the check in hand and her future seeming bright, Gary walked into a check-cashing outlet near her temporary home in Hayward. After employees there made sure it was a real check and she was the correct recipient, Gary received the payment in cash -- $17,975.
She went home and hid the money for safekeeping, then drove to buy groceries. When she returned, three masked gunmen who police say apparently had followed her from the check-cashing outlet grabbed her and forced their way into the residence.
They held guns to Gary's head and the head of her 2-year-old daughter -- and took all the money, she told police. Gary's 15-year-old son broke an arm when he jumped out of a second-floor window in an attempt to get help.
Two-and-a-half weeks later, Gary and her children are surviving thanks to the good will and financial support of East Bay residents, who have donated more than $6,000 to help her. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it could not reimburse her for the loss because the check had been cashed.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
More FEMA Problems
Can't the FEMA pass on advice to its beneficiaries that it is better to go to the bank to deposit your relief funds than to take it to a check cashing outlet? The reprehensible behavior of leaches stealing from Katrina victims is unbelievable and sickening:
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most of those people dont have bank accounts, that is why they tried the debit card thing is because of the huge number of people without bank accounts. FEMA offers electronic deposit which gets them the money quicker as well
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