Eligibility for the Lost Wages Assistance Program is based upon an individual’s weekly benefit determination – an amount calculated by a claimant’s reported wages. Individuals must have received a weekly benefit amount determination of at least $100 to be eligible for LWA. He/she must also be...
MANDATORY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Costs are direct result of declared event and tied directly to declared event; Applicant has legal responsibility for costs at the time of the disaster; Costs are not within the specific authority of another Federal program ...
Through these programs, and other initiatives, REI’s partnership with FEMA has strengthened the Agency’s ability to deliver disaster support for State and Local Governments, Tribal entities, and Territories. We have particularly focused on improving user experience for grant recipients as well as IT...
MANDATORY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Costs are direct result of declared event and tied directly to declared event; Applicant has legal responsibility for costs at the time of the disaster; Costs are not within the specific authority of another Federal program ...
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant, for example, is statutorily authorized to meet federal cost-share requirements for other federal programs.85 Recipients may also apply the value of donated goods, resources, and labor to fulfill the nonfederal cost ...
These actions created questions of eligibility for some projects named but also meant that the lower level of remaining funds in the program could not justify the regimen of a competitive grant process. The FY2015 budget has offered a mixed message for pre-disaster mitigation efforts. Despite ...
Approximately 40 percent of the competitive grant applications submitted by the states, tribes, and territories did not meet eligibility and technical feasibility requirements. FEMA attributes this to the short application period. FEMA identified 200 applications to award competitive grants. These ...
The DRF is also used to fund the Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) program. While the President has the sole authority to issue an emergency or major disaster declaration, the determination to issue a FMAG declaration can be rendered either by the President or FEMA.11In many instances th...