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Gold9472
06-18-2006, 07:51 PM
Feds Refuse to Reimburse NY for 9-11 Grief Counseling

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NEW YORK^(1010 WINS)^ -- Citing horrendous recordkeeping, The NY Daily News is reporting that the federal government has refused to reimburse the city more than $16 million it spent on grief counseling after 9/11.

The Feds denied the request for reimbursement of $28 million because the Department of Education recently failed an independent audit. The city’s DOE billed FEMA for counseling over 400,000 school children, parents, families and teachers.

In addition, receipts, copies of paychecks and invoices were still missing.

As outlined in the Daily News' "9/11 Money Trough" series in December, FEMA originally reimbursed the city only $5.2 million spent by the Education Department on grief counseling.

An audit was ordered to help resolve the dispute about the remaining funds.

As a result of the conclusions of the audit, an additional $6.5 million of the DOE’s expenditures will be reimbursed but the remaining $16.3 million will not.