In New Jersey, impacted individuals can request rental payments for temporary housing for those whose homes are unlivable.

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In New Jersey, for example, federal aid programs granted to FEMA include rental payments for temporary housing for those whose homes are unlivable.

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They did what comes naturally and wrote a bill that was all about transfer payments, temporary tax subsidies, green industrial policy, homeowner subsidies, 99 weeks of jobless benefits and all the rest.

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In such a situation, temporary balance-of-payments support together with generous debt relief makes sense.

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For purposes of the recapture rule, the three year period starts with the first calendar year you make a payment qualifying as alimony under a decree of divorce or separate maintenance or a written separation agreement (do not start the clock if the payments were made under temporary support orders).

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This can make sense if you just need to get caught up on back payments or get through a temporary rough patch.

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