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some people haven t even seen a dime. some are accused of trying to cash in on the disaster. tom foreman is keeping them honest for us tonight. reporter: way down on grand isle where the fishermen and tourists were chased away by oil, sarah is waiting for them to come back to her restaurant and for a check to cover her lost income. we re not even 50% of what we used to have. reporter: like thousands, he s filed a claim for reimbursement but says she s received less than 10% of the more than $100,000 she believes she is owed. when you think back to those ads that bp ran promising to stay and solve everything and fix it all in the end, what do you think now? i think they were fibbing. i just don t believe anything
the cleanup people are gone. the jobs are gone. it is critical now, all they have is their claim. and every week, every month, puts them farther and farther behind. there s a couple numbers in that piece we heard from tom foreman i thought were stunning. first, $4 billion of $20 billion spent. right. that seems low to lots of people. what did your reporting show? and then another number, $1.25 million paid every month to ken feinberg and his law firm to ed a minister the fund that i believe is seven lawyers or so. we were looking at all the money coming into one specific parish and looking at the effects of that and the cleanup and the claims, as well. as far as the claims are concerned, what we were able to find is that it was very arbitrary. you can t say it s malicious one way or the other, but you can say that some people got a lot and some people got very little. these are the people that told us they made the same amount of money in 2009. it all depended on the paperwork
still waiting to see if he s going to get reimbursed for his losses. unfortunately he s not alone. hundreds of thousands of people here who rely on the gulf for their livelihood say they ve lost a lot of money due to the oil disaster. they ve turned to the gulf coast claims facility hoping to be reimbursed, with 35 offices in five states. bp provided $20 billion for the fund, and it s hardly been tapped a year later. some people haven t even seen a dime. others say they should get more than they ve been given. some are accused of trying to cash in on the disaster. tom foreman is keeping them honest for us tonight. reporter: way down on grand isle where the fishermen and tourists were chased away by oil, sarah is waiting for them to come back to her restaurant and for a check to cover her lost income. we re not even 50% of what we used to have. reporter: like thousands, she s filed a claim for reimbursement but says she s received less than 10% of the more than $100,000 she believ