they don't comment on individual claims. but, so far, they have cut more than 30,000 checks and paid out more than $100 million. chris lawrence, cnn, new orleans. >> i always talk about this with billy nungesser, president of plaquemines parish. earned $700,000 or so or should have earned that and gets offered $33,000. >> we're very concerned to see how that works out. and if it is a large claim and they can't put all the money up, they want to do some checking, we've asked them to meet their obligation. if it's $50,000 a month to the bank and it's going to take them 90 days, pay them the $50,000 a month while they work out the claim. don't make them sweat it out till you come back and either make them whole or sit down and work out the difference. so, if their bills are $50,000 a month and you've got a $400,000 claim and you want to take 90 days to review all of that and come back to them, we're asking