A new user-friendly website called
Disasterassistance.gov will help ease the frustation felt by disaster victims required to search through multiple federal programs to find aid. The FEMA website, unveiled on Dec. 31, will centralize the application process for federal disaster assistance and offer a clearinghouse for information on programs administered at the federal, state and local levels.
To develop the website, DHS/FEMA partnered with 16 federal agencies that collectively sponsor more than 50 forms of disaster assistance. For the initial launch phase, the site will include only limited forms of federal assistance. Over the coming months, the website will add federal assistance programs administered at the state level, then local and tribal, and finally those of public non-profit organizations.