This site contains resources and information related to Hurricane Gustav. It was created by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center in partnership with the Equity and Inclusion Campaign and in solidarity with the many advocacy efforts going on at this time.
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An extended tax deadline for Hurricane Gustav victims arrives on Monday, and area accountants say many residents are scrambling to meet it.
After Hurricane Gustav struck in early September, the Internal Revenue Service and the state of Louisiana pushed back the Oct. 15 deadline for extended 2007 state and federal income tax returns to Jan. 5, 2009. Deadlines for other tax filings that would have been due between Sept. 1 and Jan. 5 were also pushed back until Monday. Continue reading »
NEW ORLEANS - The deadlines to register for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Individuals and Households Program are quickly approaching. There is just over one week left to register for Hurricane Gustav; the deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Right on the heels of that deadline is the Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 deadline to register for Hurricane Ike.
Any resident who suffered damage from either Hurricane Gustav or Ike but has not yet registered for assistance is urged to do so right away. Those residents who suffered damage from both disasters will need to register twice-once for each disaster.
Aid for eligible applicants may come in the form of temporary rental assistance or hotel stays and grants or loans to repair or replace damaged property and belongings. The Federal assistance program will not cover all losses, but is designed to help people return to livable housing.
Residents can register for assistance by going online to www.fema.gov, or by calling FEMA at 1-800-621- FEMA (3362) or TTY 800-462-7585. If you have already registered with FEMA, and have questions about your disaster assistance application, you can also call 1- 888-294-2822.
Those who register are asked to have pen and paper ready to take down their case number. The toll-free call takes about 20 minutes, and can be taken in any language.
The call goes more quickly if residents have the following:
Twenty Louisiana parishes have been given the Federal Disaster Designation for Hurricane Ike and are eligible for disaster assistance to individuals and households: Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Sabine, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion and Vernon.
Fifty-three parishes have been designated for Federal disaster assistance to individuals and households for Hurricane Gustav: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, La Salle, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Terrebonne, Union, Vermilion, Vernon, Washington, West Baton Rouge, West Carroll, West Feliciana and Winn.
For more information on Louisiana disaster recovery, visit www.fema.gov.
