Individual Assistance
Type of eligible expenses when there is no insurance and the residence is uninhabitable.
What are lodging expenses?
This is needed to request disaster assistance.
What is a Disaster Declaration?
Phone calls and food.
What are ineligible Individual Assistance expenses?
Regular wages paid to employees doing their normal jobs.
What is an ineligible Public Assistance expense unless it is permanent work?
The Borough Manager or Mayor.
Who are authorized to declare a Disaster Declaration?
A structure used for this purpose is eligible for Individual Assistance if it is damaged or destroyed.
What is a primary residence?
This group advises the Governor on whether a state disaster should be declared or not.
What is the Disaster Policy Cabinet?
Costs to remove debris from an incident is not eligible when this occurs.
What is eight months have passed between the incident and removal?
Maximum time from Recovery Scoping Meeting to identifying all disaster-related impacts to FEMA.
What is 60 days?
This co-located, combined group of federal, state and local government agencies provides disaster financial assistance to survivors.
What is the Joint Field Office?
A business may be eligible for this if it is damaged in a declared disaster.
What is a Small Business Administration low interest loan?
Federal assistance can be provided when this document is issued.
What is a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
Assistance is not eligible when this documentation is not provided.
What are photographs and GPS coordinates?
Category A & B.
What are the Emergency Work Categories?
Category A: Debris Removal
Category B: Emergency Protective Measures.
This entity may request disaster assistance from FEMA without asking the Governor.
What is a federally recognized tribe?
A type of residence that is not eligible for disaster assistance.
What is a summer home (non-primary residence)?
OR What is an insured home?
The President may declare an emergency without a disaster request from the Governor when this condition occurs.
What happens when the primary responsibility for the emergency is federal?
Disaster declarations without requests for assistance may not be declared without this this process having been performed.
What is a Preliminary Damage Assessment?
Categories C, D, E, F & G.
What are Permanent Work Categories?
C: Roads and Bridges
D: Water Control Facilities
E: Public Buildings and equipment
F: Public Utilities
G: Parks, Recreational and other facilities.
DAILY DOUBLE !!!!!! These two MatSu Divisions/Departments provide fiscal reports to FEMA on approved disaster recovery projects.
Who are Finance and Emergency Mangement?
These type of privately owned structures are ineligible for individual assistance.
What is a barn, shed, outbuilding etc. ?
Forever.
How long does it take to close out disaster assistance on an incident?
An on-call employee normally working 29.9 hours per week works 39.9 hours doing the same work during a declared disaster. The additional 10 hours __Is / Is Not __ eligible for reimbursement.
What is "Is Not"? seasonal or part-time forced-labor employees working less than 40 hours per week are not eligible for reimbursement.
requested Public Assistance (PA) funding for work performed by its Director of Health Services, a part-time, 10-month position budgeted to work 20 hours per week during the academic year. FEMA denied the Applicant’s request for in-season hours worked exceeding 20 hours but below 40 hours per week, finding the work ineligible as straight-time labor costs for a permanently budgeted employee. The Applicant appealed, arguing these claimed force account labor (FAL) costs should be considered eligible, contending FEMA clarified eligibility of overtime labor hours when it updated the description of budgeted employees in the Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide (PAPPG) from “seasonal employee working during normal season of employment” in Version 3.1 to “part-time or seasonal employee working during normal hours or season of employment” in Version 4. FEMA denied the appeals, finding the FAL performed by the budgeted employee and documented as straight-time labor costs ineligible for PA funding.
Cardiac Monitors ordered by a Fire/EMS Department under the COVID - 19 emergency _ Are / Are Not eligible for reimbursement expenses.
What is "Are Not"?
FEMA denied funding, finding the costs for the cardiac monitors/defibrillators were increased costs of operating in a COVID-19 environment and did not address an immediate threat due to COVID-19.
FEMA Region 5 Regional Administrator denied the first appeal, finding that ambulances and ALS engines are not included under FEMA’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Medical Care Eligible for Public Assistance Policy Assistance (Interim) (Version 2), FP 104-010-04 (Medical Care Policy), and, thus, the purchase of cardiac monitors for use in ambulances and ALS engines is not considered eligible work under the Medical Care Policy or under any other FEMA COVID-19 policy nor are the monitors eligible Personal Protective Equipment.
FEMA finds the Applicant did not demonstrate that the cardiac monitors were related to an eligible emergency protective measure in response to COVID-19. Therefore, this appeal is denied.
This MatSu Department tracks debris management issues in the MatSu Borough following disasters.
Who is O&M and/or OEM?