FEMA Provieds Toxic Trailers, Evicts Victims, Then Sends Threatening Collection Letters

FEMA is the agency with acres of empty mobile homes because they couldn't find the hurricanes to take them to.

FEMA is the agency that put homeless Americans and their children in trailers filled with toxic chemicals.

And on the same day the Centers for Disease Control released a study that the poison in the FEMA trailers was 75 times the limit OSHA allowed workers to be exposed to, FEMA started sending collection letters to hurricane victims who had so far survived both the hurricanes and FEMA.

Gail Fotheringham, 57, a grandmother who lived in a FEMA mobile home for 18 months with her daughter and three grandchildren after a hurricane destroyed their home was surprised when she got a FEMA collection letter. Instead of charging her rent FEMA had evicted her and her family.

"You have not paid the amount you owe the Federal Emergency Management Agency for Mobile Home Rental," said the letter, which seeks a balance due of $1,357.58.

The FEMA letter says, "if you do not pay your debt or take other action ... within 60 days from the date of this letter, FEMA will submit your debt to the Department of the Treasury. FEMA will continue to add interest, penalties and administrative charges to your unpaid debt until your debt is paid in full."

FEMA victims like Fotheringham could also be prosecuted, the IRS could collect the debt from future refunds or Social Security payments, or the debt cold be referred to a collection agency, the letter said.