Brevard residents can apply for Hurricane Ian assistance through FEMA - Florida Today

Brevard County residents present are eligible to use for national catastrophe assistance for losses resulting from Hurricane Ian.

To beryllium eligible for national assistance nether the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individual Assistance Program, the harm indispensable person occurred arsenic a effect of Hurricane Ian, including upwind harm and flooding from the storm.

In announcing the support for FEMA aid, Brevard County officials said residents who person spot oregon flood security indispensable archetypal record a assertion with their security company. If they bash not person insurance, oregon their security does not screen their claim, they tin statesman applying for FEMA assistance. 

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Those who suffered Ian-related damages tin registry with FEMA done 1 of these methods:

• Online astatine DisasterAssistance.gov
• On the FEMA Mobile App
• By calling 800-621-3362 (FEMA)

Brevard County Emergency Management Director John Scott said region officials have been "working this country arsenic hard arsenic we can" to get FEMA to o.k. Brevard County for idiosyncratic assistance aid, successful portion by gathering accusation connected harm that county residents sustained from Ian.

Scott said the grade of the tempest harm successful Brevard wasn't arsenic evident to national officials as the harm was successful immoderate adjacent counties that received support for the FEMA assistance sooner.

Much of the flooding from Ian occurred successful bluish Brevard — including Mims, Scottsmoor and Titusville — wherever rainfall totals mostly were higher than successful cardinal and confederate Brevard. 

Ian exited Brevard County the greeting of Sept. 29 arsenic a tropical tempest with sustained winds of astir 65 mph, and astir of the heaviest rainfall was northbound of the halfway of the storm.

"We've had to precise overmuch fight, location by house, lawsuit by case, to get there," and person the FEMA support for aid, Scott said during Tuesday night's Brevard County Commissions meeting. "Fortunately, FEMA agreed with america today, and provided that assistance."

"We are moving precise hard, and we volition proceed to beryllium successful that area," Scott added.

Brevard County Commissioner Rita Pritchett — who District 1 includes northbound Brevard — said she is moving with Scott and others successful region unit to stitchery the accusation connected harm Ian has caused to section residents.

"We person been moving this 24/7," Pritchett said. "You've had roads lavation retired successful Mims. We did not suffice for FEMA (individual assistance) until conscionable (Tuesday). We're getting FEMA assistance now. We bash person immoderate assistance coming in."

County Commission Chair Kristine Zonka added that the region had to combat to get the FEMA designation to assistance screen the damages.

Applicants for FEMA assistance should person the pursuing accusation acceptable erstwhile they apply:

• Contact Information (telephone number, mailing address, Social Security number).
• Household Income.
• Address of damaged location oregon apartment.
• Description of harm oregon mislaid items.
• Photos of their damaged location and belongings.
• Information astir security coverage.
• Bank relationship and routing numbers for nonstop deposit of funds.

Applicants who usage 711 oregon Video Relay Service tin telephone 800-621-3362.

People who are deaf, hard of proceeding oregon person a code disablement and usage a TTY tin telephone 800-462-7585.

The toll-free numbers are unfastened from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., 7 days a week.

Multilingual operators are available. Press 2 for Spanish, and property 3 for different languages.

FEMA said catastrophe assistance tin see fiscal assistance with impermanent lodging and location repairs, arsenic good arsenic different disaster-related expenses.

FEMA connected Tuesday added Brevard, Hendry, Monroe and Okeechobee counties to its database of Florida counties eligible for idiosyncratic assistance.

Previously connected the database were Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Flagler, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns and Volusia counties.

This communicative volition beryllium updated.

Dave Berman is concern exertion astatine FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Berman astatine dberman@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @bydaveberman.

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