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California Ends Disaster Case-Management, 700 Still Waiting
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- California will shut down its disaster case-management program at the end of October, leaving survivors without assistance.
- FEMA awarded $13.2 million for 24 months but has paid only one of four installments.
- California requested $28 million plus $6.5 million, which FEMA has not approved.
- Seven hundred households remain on a waitlist for disaster case-management services.
- More than 100 case managers may lose jobs as nonprofits scramble to reassign clients.