FEMA has announced that Calcasieu Parish residents who are not able to live in their home because of Hurricane Laura damage qualify for housing assistance, which includes the placing of a FEMA RV or manufactured home on a survivor’s property. FEMA Division Supervisor Jerry Stolar says many of these homes were used four years ago…
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Stolar says FEMA is reaching out to residents who are eligible for this program.

Thousands of Louisiana residents will start to lose their state unemployment benefits because they run out after six months. Many people filed for unemployment in March and April because of the coronavirus shutdown. But Louisiana Workforce Commission Secretary Ava Dejoie says they can get unemployment through the feds…
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Louisiana Democratic Party Chair Katie Bernhardt calls it gross negligence on the part of Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin for allowing routine maintenance on the Secretary of State’s website on Tuesday night, which prohibited people from registering to vote on National Voter Registration Day. Katie Bernhardt says you still have until October 13th to register…
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Ardoin says the website error is unfortunate and he takes full responsibility.

Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder says the Unclaimed Property Program is temporarily short of money, so residents who seek to claim money that belongs to them from that fund, will see a delay in getting their cash. Schroder says the shortfall is the result of budget sweeps and he says there’s a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would create the Unclaimed Property Permanent Trust Fund…
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