Right after the Biggert - Waters Act began phasing out
federal flood insurance subsidies in 2012, the average cost of a residential policy in Vermont jumped from $ 1,600 a year to $ 4,000, according to the Vermont League of Cities and Towns.
Not exact matches
The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel
subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural
subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of
federal crop
insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation
subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of
federal flood, crop and nuclear
insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.
The president and Congress should cut
federal subsidies that keep the price of
insurance in some high - risk zones (
flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.
The
subsidies come in the form of state - mandated caps on
insurance premiums, cheap
federal flood insurance, and
federal disaster relief.
To improve the financial footing of the
federal flood insurance program, the bill phases out premium
subsidies that go to certain properties built before 1974.
NAR and many lawmakers in Congress are pushing for a time - out in the
federal government's efforts to eliminate
flood insurance subsidies over time and phase in premium rates that reflect properties» actuarial risk of
flooding.
This fall, the Biggert - Waters Act began the process of removing and reducing
federal subsidies for
flood insurance on more than a million homes nationwide.
But, the law also implemented changes in the
federal subsidy of
flood insurance.