NEW YORK –In the waning hours prior to the U.S. Federal Government’s partial shutdown, RIMS, the risk management society™, welcomed congressional action to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Extended through May 31, 2019, the program will become the responsibility of inco...
The storm recovery will not come cheap. The FEMA-administered National Flood Insurance Program is already more than $17 billion in debt. It's unclear what the volume of claims will be after Sandy, but the program in 2005 alone -- the year of Katrina -- paid out $17.7 billion. FE...
Patty Templeton-Jones, president and chief program advocate for insurer Wright Flood FEMA, now takes several risk factors into consideration when it comes to flood insurance that it already uses for other types of property insurance. The old system focused on a property’s elevation within a...
Attend a Webinar Find assistance for individuals, families, state, local, tribal or territorial governments, and select private nonprofit organizations. Read More Graphic Major Disaster Declaration: Vermont Individual and public assistance are now available for the areas affected by severe storms, floodin...
Improving FEMA's coastal risk assessment through the National Flood Insurance Program: an historical overview. Marine Technology Society Journal, 41(1), 5-14.Crowell, M. , E. Hirsch , and T.L. Hayes . 2007 . Improving FEMA's coastal risk assessment through the National Flood Insurance ...
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Some of the aid has been in the form of temporary housing in Caldwell, Graves, Hopkins, Marshall, Muhlenberg and Warren counties. The total includes FEMA grants, U.S. Small Business Administration loans, National Flood Insurance Program claims and Disaster Unemployment Assistance. ...
In addition to his role as the public face of FEMA, Fugate also appears equally adept in the policy marshes that FEMA operates in around Washington. In recenttestimonybefore the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, on “Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program,...
A FEMA initiative, established under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to recognize and reward communities that have implemented floodplain management measures beyond the minimum NFIP requirements. Under theCRS, those communities that choose to participate may reduce the flood insurance premium...