Social media users are discouraging residents from accepting disaster aid in Maui, falsely claiming the Federal Emergency Management Agency could seize their property if they do.
, some social media users are discouraging residents from accepting disaster aid by falsely claiming the Federal Emergency Management Agency could seize their property if they do.
CLAIM: FEMA can seize the private property of any Maui resident that signs up for disaster assistance. The page then explains that when a person applies for disaster assistance, a FEMA inspector may be sent to verify the damage to their home. “One reason that these messages are dangerous and counterproductive is because people may not get access to the benefits they are due by law, FEMA individual assistance programs,” he wrote in an email., which the narrator claims gives FEMA the power to take private lands. But the federal agency also rejected that notion.
But Anthony DellaPelle, the New Jersey property lawyer who wrote the analysis, said his piece is being wrongly applied to the Maui disaster.
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