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2. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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   The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448). The NFIP has two purposes: to share the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development.

3. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood insurance

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   The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created Risk Rating 2.0 to help create more fairly rated flood insurance policies by taking more rating factors into consideration.

4. Thousands of US communities forgo federal flood insurance - AOL

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   FEMA manages the NFIP, which Congress created in 1968 with the National Flood Insurance Act. Homeowners, businesses, and renters can buy flood coverage through the NFIP Direct system or more than ...

5. What is flood insurance, and why do you need it? - AOL

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   Is FEMA flood insurance enough? Under FEMA policies, coverage for single-family homes is capped at $250,000 for a building’s damage and $100,000 for its contents. For businesses, the maximum ...

6. National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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   The federal government heavily underwrites the flood insurance rates for these areas. The law "ordered FEMA to stop subsidizing flood insurance for second homes and businesses, and for properties that had been swamped multiple times." [7] These changes were to occur gradually over the course of five years. FEMA was also instructed to do a study ...

7. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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   This case gave FEMA the right to sue in order to recover funds paid out in flood insurance claims for flood damage as a result of poor decisions by local officials and developers. The case also gave FEMA the power to sue localities who fail to meet flood plain management requirements. [112]