FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked thousands of Floridians whose homes were damaged by last summer's four hurricanes to give back more than $27 million in aid overpayments.
FEMA earlier this year began mailing letters to residents in efforts to recoup the overpayments from people who received federal aid after Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne hit Florida last August and September.
According to data supplied to the Fort Myers News-Press through a Freedom of Information Act request, the agency detailed 6,579 cases in which they say people owe a total of $27.2 million.
Many of the problems stem from FEMA providing money for items that were later covered by property insurance policies, from more than one person from the same household applying for benefits or from processing errors.
FEMA has committed more than $5 billion to Florida's hurricane recovery.
