The Department of Children and Families determines eligibility for Medicaid. Medicaid may be authorized. for up to three months prior to the date of application provided an applicant has unpaid medical bill(s) for. one or more of the three months preceding the month of application. This is known as retroactive Medicaid.
The costliest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic was Hurricane Katrina, which struck the coastlines of Mississippi and Louisiana after brushing the tip of Florida, in August 2005, causing $108 billion (2005 USD) in property damage.
â¢ Katrina far surpasses the residential damage of Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed or damaged approximately 80,000 homes in 1992. It even exceeds the combined damage of the four major 2004 hurricanes, Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, which together destroyed or damaged approximately 85,000 homes.