After the Japanese were let out of the Internment Camps, Congress paid back reparations tot he families who lost everything before relocating. They started by giving them ten cents for every dollar they had lost during the evacuation process. Soon, after, the Federal Government paid $37 million. According to PBS, "In 1988 after 40 years of political agitation, Japanese Americans persuaded Congress to approve legislation providing an official apology and an additional payment of $20,000 to each surviving internee." Surviving internees had it rough trying to return back home. Sometimes people had moved into the abandoned home and sometimes they came back and there was nothing there.