洛杉矶火灾个案管理计划10月31日到期：加州追加拨款上诉仍待批复，约1400户或失去个案经理
位于加州洛杉矶县的 Altadena 与 Pacific Palisades 社区在 2025 年 1 月的伊顿大火与帕利塞兹大火中受灾。加州州政府为两场大火幸存者设立的灾后个案管理计划（Disaster Case Management Program）定于 10 月 31 日结束，加州要求联邦追加资金、把计划维持到联邦应急管理署（Federal Emergency Management Agency，FEMA）最初批准的 24 个月期限的上诉，目前仍在待决。据美联社报道，约 1,400 户正在接受服务的家庭可能因此失去个案经理，另有约 700 户还在等候名单上。
个案经理负责协助幸存者处理保险理赔、临时住房、损失证明、重建补助申请，以及 FEMA 与小企业局（SBA）贷款手续，是为恢复过程无法靠一次申请解决的家庭提供的长期协助。
资金经过方面，加州在火灾后最初申请 2,800 万美元，FEMA 批准约 1,320 万美元、为期 24 个月、分四期支付。据美联社报道，到今年 8 月只有第一期到账，州政府表示无力继续垫付。据国会众议员赵美心（Judy Chu）办公室，FEMA 于 9 月 30 日、即计划面临中断的当天发放了第二、三期共 660 万美元，州政府与非营利伙伴随后把计划延长到 10 月 31 日。FEMA 10 月 7 日宣布发放最后一期 330 万美元，称该计划获得的联邦资金总额已超过 1,300 万美元、支持了 3,000 多名幸存者。
追加申请方面，加州今年 3 月另行申请约 650 万美元，以把计划维持全程。国会众议员赵美心、Brad Sherman 与联邦参议员 Adam Schiff、Alex Padilla 在 9 月 24 日的联名信中表示，FEMA 位于 Oakland 的地区办公室 9 月 11 日以成本论证不足为由，拒绝了 6,568,265.60 美元的追加申请；当时计划有 1,288 个在办个案，州政府已经提出上诉。赵美心在 10 月 7 日的声明中说：「FEMA 必须做正确的事，批准加州州政府的追加拨款上诉，让个案管理计划维持到 FEMA 自己批准的完整 24 个月期限。」
联邦方面的口径是，已批准的钱已经付清。FEMA 表示，洛杉矶灾难的联邦援助总额达 60 亿美元，包括向 3.5 万多户家庭发放逾 1.83 亿美元个人援助、小企业局 31 亿美元贷款与 24 亿美元瓦砾清除费用，清除了逾 270 万吨瓦砾。白宫发言人 Abigail Jackson 表示，总统对救灾拨款的审查比以往任何一届政府都更严格，决定不存在政治化。
据《旧金山问询报》10 月 24 日报道，该报向 FEMA、加州州长紧急服务办公室与参与运行计划的非营利机构 CORE 询问上诉状态与 10 月 31 日之后的安排，截稿前未获回复。
LA Fire Case Management Program Expires Oct. 31: California's Appeal for More Funds Still Pending, About 1,400 Households Could Lose Case Managers
The communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles County, California, were devastated by the Eaton and Palisades fires in January 2025. California's Disaster Case Management Program for survivors of the two fires is scheduled to end on October 31, and the state's appeal for additional federal money to sustain the program through the full 24 months originally approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is still pending. According to The Associated Press, about 1,400 households currently being served could lose their case managers, with roughly 700 more households on a waiting list.
Case managers help survivors work through insurance claims, temporary housing, loss documentation, rebuilding grants and FEMA and Small Business Administration (SBA) paperwork — long-term assistance for families whose recovery cannot be resolved with a single application.
On funding, California initially sought $28 million after the fires; FEMA awarded about $13.2 million over 24 months, payable in four installments. According to the AP, by August only the first installment had arrived and the state said it could no longer front the costs. According to the office of Representative Judy Chu, FEMA released the second and third installments, totaling $6.6 million, on September 30, the day the program faced a cutoff, and the state and its nonprofit partners then extended the program through October 31. On October 7, FEMA announced a final $3.3 million installment, saying federal funding for the program had passed $13 million and had supported more than 3,000 survivors.
Separately, California asked in March for about $6.5 million more to sustain the program for its full term. In a September 24 letter, Representatives Judy Chu and Brad Sherman and Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla wrote that FEMA's regional office in Oakland had declined a $6,568,265.60 supplemental request on September 11, citing insufficient cost justification; the program then had 1,288 active cases, and the state has appealed. "FEMA must do the right thing and approve the State of California's appeal for additional supplemental funding to sustain DCMP through the full 24-month timeframe that FEMA itself approved," Chu said in an October 7 statement.
The federal position is that the money it approved has been paid. FEMA says total federal assistance for the Los Angeles disaster has reached $6 billion, including more than $183 million in individual assistance to more than 35,000 households, $3.1 billion in SBA loans and $2.4 billion for debris removal, with more than 2.7 million tons of debris cleared. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the president reviews disaster aid requests more thoroughly than any previous administration and that the decisions involve no politicization.
The San Francisco Inquirer reported on October 24 that it had asked FEMA, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and CORE, one of the nonprofits running the program, about the status of the request and what happens after October 31, and that none had responded by publication time.
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图片来源：2025年1月伊顿大火中被烧毁的 Altadena 民宅与车辆（资料图）。照片：经加州州政府公共记录申请公开，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / A home and vehicle destroyed in the January 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena (file photo). Photo: released via a California public records request, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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