i spoke a couple weeks ago to a congressman from alabama who represents coastal counties and they re reliant on tourism for their incomes, businesses there, which were devastated last year because nobody came to the beach. he told me by the beginning of april, there had been 6,800 alabama businesses that filed claims from the fund. at the beginning of april, fewer than 300 received final or interim payments. it s unbelievable. and in conjunction with that, he told me there s a hotline for services in his district. from february to march, when people were anticipating getting their payments, because the deadline was in november, the number of calls to those help lines quadrupled from february
i think the pace is way too slow. the toll on people s lives from having to wait for so long for payments, sort of belies what they re saying about making people whole again. i spoke a couple weeks ago to a congressman from alabama who represents coastal counties and they re reliant on tourism for their incomes, businesses there, which were devastated last year because nobody came to the beach. he told me by the beginning of april, there had been 6,800 alabama businesses that filed claims from the fund. at the beginning of april, fewer than 300 received final or interim payments. it s unbelievable. and in conjunction with that, he told me there s a hotline for services in his district. from february to march, when people were anticipating getting their payments, because the deadline was in november, the number of calls to those help lines quadrupled from february
they re reliant on tourism for their incomes, businesses there, which were devastated last year because nobody came to the beach. he told me by the beginning of april, there had been 6,800 alabama businesses that filed claims from the find. at the beginning of april, fewer than 300 received final or interim payments. it s unbelievable. and in conjunction with that, he told me there s a hotline for services in his district. from february to march, when people were anticipating getting their payments, because the deadline was in november, the number of calls to those help lines quadrupled from february to march. people have been reaching the end of their ropes. they re losing their businesses and homes because they have no income. billy, you want full disclosure from bp. what do you want to know? we want to know where is the money.
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