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.
2005 â Hurricane Katrina, a category 3 hurricane when it hit the US Gulf Coast, caused catastrophe when levees were breached in New Orleans, unleashing devastating floods that left 1m people homeless. It proved the costliest hurricane in US history, with some $135bn of damage, and claiming more than 1,000 lives.