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All that rain didn\u2019t just flood L.A. County streets, it chewed up our roads. You\u2019re likely driving over more potholes than usual, so what do you do if your car gets damaged from one? You could get the government to pay for it.<\/p>\n
How it works: You\u2019ll want to take pictures of the pothole and your car. Then, submit a claim form. Personal property damage claims have a six-month filing period, and you\u2019ll have to pay out-of-pocket first.<\/p>\n
Manage your expectations: Keep in mind, this isn\u2019t a quick way to cash. Claims can take months. You\u2019ll also have to prove the agency was aware of the problem before your incident, such as by looking at street maintenance records for your area. Here are tips from the now-defunct site LAPotholes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. <\/p>\n What\u2019s next: Potholes continue to plague the city of L.A., and that\u2019s probably not ending soon. In the next budget, StreetsLA (aka Bureau of Street Services) is proposing<\/a> to prioritize funding for \u201clarge asphalt repair,\u201d which means patching over sections rather than fully repaving streets, which some argue<\/a> will lead to worse roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: All that rain didn\u2019t just flood L.A. County streets, it chewed up our roads. You\u2019re likely driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65958,48,52,51,47,50,49,60318,65957],"class_list":["post-127716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-damage-claim","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-pothole","tag-streetsla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}