FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, admits disaster payments to unqualified applicants were largely their own fault. As a consequence of employees who did not completely understand eligibility rules made accounting errors, thousands of people were paid disaster relief money between 2005 and 2009; now they’re getting a bill from FEMA, wanting their money back. Victims of floods, tornadoes, wildfires and earthquakes that received help from FEMA as far back as 2005; may be getting a bill from FEMA. After discovering that there had been improper payments made, FEMA began looking into…
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Questionable claims activity on the rise
Insurance companies reported that ever since 2008 there has already been an increase of twenty four percent in suspicious claims. In that same year, over 74,146 questionable claims were discovered. A questionable claim is picked out when detected by fraud indicators used by the industry that may cite up to 7 reasons in each claim that may cause reason to be red flagged. These cases were then passed on to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) and were examined, compared and matched to prior incidents from other member insurance companies. Upon…
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