Ten Years On, Sandy Survivors Slam Storm Recovery Process

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“The system is not fixed. It’s by far not fixed,” Jody Stewart told lawmakers at a joint Assembly committee hearing Thursday on storm preparedness and post-storm assistance. Stewart and other Superstorm Sandy survivors spoke about what happened after their homes were flooded 10 years ago — how they lost everything and had to negotiate through a bureaucratic minefield to get desperately needed aid to recover and rebuild. But regulators now want to claw back some of that money, claiming it was an overpayment by the government.