This category covers the financial and other benefits that a person might get after or during a disaster. It includes FEMA Benefits, housing help, local help, and other public assistance programs. It covers who is eligible for this help, how they access it, how to maintain it, or other issues that might arise.
Common Legal Issues After a Disaster
This resource covers housing, consumer, finance after a disaster, family and educational issues, disaster programs and benefits, employment and unemployment after a disaster, wills, estates and guardianships, and other public health emergency issues after a disaster.
Disaster Programs And Benefits
This covers the financial and other public benefits that a person might get after or during a disaster. It includes how a person who has been through a disaster can access benefits for housing and other needs assistance. This includes food benefits, FEMA benefits, SBA disaster loans for housing assistance, and other access to help with disaster expenses and needs.
Housing After A Disaster
A guide to the legal issues a person may encounter in housing after a natural disaster. This includes information for homeowners and renters.
Preparing For A Disaster
It is important to plan ahead for disasters. The more you prepare ahead for a disaster, the faster and easier it may be to recover. If you are experiencing the effects of a disaster, you may face different legal problems. This includes information for how to prepare in advance for a disaster and for disaster survivors. A disaster event requires immediate attention and quick remedial action. A disaster involves injury, loss of life, damage to property, or catastrophic interference with normal activities. This information includes how to prepare to deal with sudden, unexpected, or impending situations where a disaster may occur.
Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loans
Information on disaster loans provided by the U.S. Small Business Administration and how to apply.