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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards tomorrow. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts this evening, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
September 18, 2005 Deceased Victims Update 9-18-2005September 18: Updated Number of Deceased Victims Resulting from Hurricane Katrina
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, -
- At this time, state officials, working in conjunction with coroners from local parishes have confirmed646 deaths.
- These numbers have been reported to state officials by local coroners.
- A breakdown of these deaths is as follows:
490 are at the morgue in St. Gabriel
Parish Coroners:
Assumption -- 2
East Baton Rouge – 63
Iberia – 6
Jefferson – 30
Livingston -- 4
Plaquemines -- 3
St. Charles – 5
St. Tammany – 7
Tangipahoa -- 20
Terrebonne -- 14
West Baton Rouge – 2
Any death that is determined to have been caused as a result of Hurricane Katrina will be counted as a hurricane-related death. For example, this applies to people who drowned as well as people who required life-support but had it cut off and died as a result when power was lost during the storm.