Hey, Folks, lots of news today, hopefully mostly good. A Sun Herald reporter, Anita Lee called me today in response to my letters to the local newspaper. Because of our emails, she had spoken to Kenneth Feinberg on the phone today to discuss our huge disparity of payment rates for Mississippi. Ken told her that it was because of our lack of documentation. Really? Hey, Ken, lack of documentation goes into the "lack of documentation" file, not "denied"! She ran the numbers and called him back, but has been stone-walled. The better news is this: now when I click "Check Claim Status", no longer do I get "under review", I now get a completely new message "Claim Under Detailed Compensatory Review". I have just spoken (4:30am CDT) with a GCCF representative in Ohio who assures me that our claims are actually back in action. Hopefully, Ken has seen the light, and we will be recognized as a driving force in our Gulf Coast economic engine. Look for Anita's story in the Sun Herald Thursday 10/27.
According to the GCCF website, there were over 20,000 new claims made overnight. There were about 2500 more paid and about 2500 more denied. Good news, bad news? I'm thinking that with twenty new and five resolved that these people are back-logging really fast. What the heck is going to happen between now and their announced November 23 deadline for "final offers"?
We are having some trouble dealing with the accuracy of the GCCF website. Here's why: every states' stats are OK except Louisiana's (imagine that!). LA's total number of claims went up, but their "Paid" went down! How does that happen? Mississippi is still being treated WAY worse than our neighbors. Mississippi's denial rate now shows at over 30%. Our three neighbors combined are denied at 8%. Maybe we should all move to Florida, which had very little oil and are being denied at only 4%.
Hey, let me know if you you have any new info. We've gotta get our local leaders going on this...
Haley Barbour: governor@governor.state.ms.us
Gene Taylor: http://www.taylor.house.gov/
Fox News: newsmanager@foxnews.com
Sun Herald: calee@sunherald.com (Anita Lee)
Sun Herald: letters@sunherald.com
WLOX: agiardina@wlox.com
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