Shell Game

Now you see it....

WASHINGTON -- Linda Ireland figured that whatever money she got from Louisiana's long-awaited Road Home program could be used to rebuild her flooded-out New Orleans house.

Ireland was stunned to discover recently that a big chunk of her Road Home grant could very well be taking a road straight back to Washington, D.C.

By law, disaster victims are prohibited from receiving multiple sources of financial aid for the same purpose. So Ireland's rebuilding grant, along with those of untold numbers of other flood victims in Louisiana and Mississippi, may have to be used to pay off all or a portion of her disaster loan from the Small Business Administration.