Show "V A22 o The Salt Lake Tribune FE3IA Helping MIAMI — The Federal Emergency Management Agency the government's lifeline to people caught in disasters is so understaffed and consumed by paperwork that tens of thousands of victims of Hurricane Andrew are unlikely to get immediate finan cial help when they need it most Few have seen a check yet and many might not get one for more than a month The main problem seems to be red tape that keeps even the most dedicated agency workers from doing more than helping the hurricane victims fill out forms Not one of the people interviewed in the hurricane-ravagearea last week said they had received a government check and many others still were trying to apply for one A major area bank operating since the day after the Aug 24 storm said it had seen numerous insurance company checks but no government relief checks FEMA has set up 16 temporary Disaster Assistance Centers in Dade County most in tents where several hundred registrars help people fill out forms for subsisr tence and grants The registrars also steer victims to other workers at the centers who can help including counselors from the Small Business Administration which provides loans to qualified businesses and homeowners and the Internal Revenue Service the Department of Veterans Affairs the Red : Cross and the Salvation Army FEMA also will take information for grant applications over d home-repai- Paper Not in Pocketbook On THE NEW YORK TIMES NATION the telephone although phones are hard to find in badly battered communities like Homestead Florida City and Cutler Ridge Some of the assistance centers have been dispatching bilingual aides into neighborhoods where people cling to the ruins of their homes But many of the estimated 200000 people left homeless still have not been reached and when lines of loan and grant seekers build up at the centers the storm victims are given appointments to come back days and even weeks later Not until then can they even begin the process of qualifying for help The agency declines to say how much money it has given the disaster victims since Wednesday By then it said it had paid out $500000 in several hundred checks to grant applicants in Florida — a minuscule amount for a disaster that ruined or damaged more than 80000 dwellings It did not say how many grants this represented The five disaster centers in Louisiana which took less of a blow than Florida had dispatched 169 checks totaling $228000 -We are writing checks faster than in any other disaster" said Andrea Booher a FEMA spokeswoman Antonio Perez the agency's associate director said as he rushed off from a quick inspection of a disaster center in Homestead 'TEMCs doing just great despite what your newspaper is report- ing" Whatever the amounts it is close to impossible to find anyone who has received a check from FEMA or the Small Business Administration Likely people to come across the checks are cashiers at the First National Bank of Homestead whose main office downtown reopened the day after the storm Through a week when nearly all other banks remained out of commission it cashed checks and took deposits for all comers customers or not "We are not seeing any government checks" Bob Jensen a vice president of the bank said late last week Guiding a line of area residents running far out the door to cashiers working by generator-supplielights Jensen said that he was seeing checks only from insurance companies to policyholders The first of those checks to show up were for immediate living expenses typically $2500 to $5000 And lately he said he was seeing much larger amounts for the full value of homes that were destroyed "I'm finding that we have a mass of people that need help now" said Jimmy Wheeler manager of an assistance center who stood at his post all day greeting people "We try to find out what type of assistance they need" But there is little the counselors can do The center cannot approve applications or shed any light on how much money applicants might get when they will get it or whether they will get any at all By midafternoon when Margaret Mc Bean got in line appointments were backing up Mc Bean d Sunday September 6 1992 a medical secretary who is separated was asked to come back Oct 2 "Four kids and they put you on hold" she said "I can't go to work" Mc Bean said "My car's windshield is broke We don't have no electricity or water I need to move somewhere I don't have savings I live 1 CANCER C004 JUNE 21 anti 22 i) 0 Is In 21 Issue 51 g 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Been Over Out JUL!' 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