Florida seniors face $1,000 hurricane evacuation fee at senior living community

A new hurricane policy at Calusa Harbour, a senior living community in Fort Myers, Florida, is raising alarms among residents who say they could be forced to pay $1,000 each time a storm triggers a mandatory evacuation, WINK News reported.

For seniors living on fixed incomes, that kind of fee can turn an already stressful weather emergency into a financial crisis.

What’s happening?

Residents told WINK News that a hurricane evacuation charge was added after Sinceri Senior Living took over the community.

“They’re charging us $1,000 per occurrence per hurricane to move us out of an area that is a mandatory hurricane evacuation area,” Barbara Costabile explained…

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