Disaster Relief Benefits

Casualties, Disasters, and Theft
The program offers tax relief for casualty losses that result from the destruction of, or damage to your property from any sudden, unexpected, or unusual event such as a flood, hurricane, tornado, fire, earthquake or even volcanic eruption

Cora Brown Fund
The Cora Brown Fund uses funds made possible by a bequest of funds from the late Cora C. Brown of Kansas City, Missouri, who left a portion of her estate to the United States for the purpose of helping victims of natural disasters.

Crisis Counseling
The Crisis Counseling program provides immediate crisis counseling services to victims of a major Federally declared disaster for the purpose of relieving mental health problems caused or aggravated by a major disaster or its aftermath.

Disaster Housing Program
The Disaster Housing Program provides housing assistance in the form of a grant to individuals whose homes sustained damage as a result of a Presidentially declared disaster. To qualify for assistance, the damaged home must be your primary residence.

Disaster Legal Services
The Disaster Legal Services program provides legal assistance to individuals affected by a major Federal disaster.

Disaster Unemployment Assistance
The Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) program provides unemployment benefits to individuals who have become unemployed as a result of a Presidentially declared major disaster.
EMI Residential Education Program
The Emergency Management Institute Residential Education Program improves emergency management practices among state, local and tribal government managers, and Federal officials, in response to emergencies and disasters. .

Emergency Conservation Program for Agricultural Producers
The Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) shares with agricultural producers the cost of rehabilitating eligible farmlands damaged by natural disaster. During severe drought, ECP also provides emergency water assistance.

Farm Emergency Loans
The emergency loan program aims to help family farmers recover from losses resulting from natural disasters. These loans can be used to:

* repair or replace buildings or other structures
* purchase livestock and equipment


Home Mortgage Insurance for Disaster Victims
This program can help individuals purchase a new home or rebuild their house if they are victimized by a major disaster. While HUD does not lend money directly to buyers to rebuild or purchase, FHA-approved lenders make loans.

Individual and Family Grants for Disaster Victims
The Individual and Family Grant Program (IFG) provides money for the necessary expenses of disaster victims, which cannot be met through other forms of disaster assistance, including insurance.

Individual and Household Assistance
The Individual and Household Assistance program provides aid to individuals and households affected by a disaster to enable them to address necessary expenses and serious needs, which cannot be met through other forms of disaster assistance.

Individual and Household Disaster Housing Operations
The Individual and Household Disaster Housing Operations program provides assistance to individuals and households affected by a disaster to enable them to address their disaster-related housing needs.

Individual and Household Housing
The Individual and Household Housing program provides assistance to individuals and households affected by a disaster to enable them to address their disaster-related housing needs.
Louisiana Food Stamp Program
The Food Stamp Program provides monthly benefits that help low-income households buy the food they need for good health. The goal of the program is to promote the general welfare and to safeguard the health and well being of the population.

Mississippi Unemployment Insurance
Unemployment insurance benefits provide temporary financial assistance to workers unemployed through no fault of their own that meet Mississippi's eligibility requirements.

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) makes Federally-backed flood insurance available in NFIP-participating communities that agree to adopt and enforce floodplain management ordinances to reduce future flood damage.

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
The Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) provides financial assistance to eligible producers affected by natural disasters. This Federally funded program covers noninsurable crop losses and planting prevented by disasters.

Ohio Unemployment Compensation
Unemployment Insurance is an employer-paid insurance program that helps workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own. It provides temporary financial help to qualified individuals based on their previous earnings.

Oregon Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to low income families with children while they strive to become self-sufficient. The goal of the program is to reduce the number of families living in poverty.

Rural Disaster Housing Assistance
To assist qualified lower income rural families to meet emergency assistance needs resulting from natural disaster to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve dwellings in rural areas. Funds are only available to the extent that funds are not provided.

Rural Housing: Natural Disaster Loans and Grants
To assist very-low income owner- occupants to repair or replace damaged property as a direct result of a natural disaster. Loans are made in counties named by the Federal Management Agency (FEMA) as being eligible for Federal assistance.

Terrorist Attack-Disaster Relief Information for Individuals For eligible individuals and families who are victims of terrorist attacks special provisions were enacted under the Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001. Under this Act, the federal income tax liability of those killed in the following attack.