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July 22, 2019 |  By: Lily Lopez

FEMA to reevaluate to expand disaster assistance

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has agreed to reevaluate Missouri's request to expand disaster assistance to residents in twenty-one additional counties that were denied federal assistance in Presidents Trump's July 9 federal disaster declaration earlier this year.

FEMA will be conducting the damage assessments tomorrow with the State Emergency Management Agency and local officials on newly identified property. Ground teams will also be used to fully assess areas that had only been reviewed by helicopter. As well as reevaluating insurance and income levels as factors in the ability to recover in the affected areas.

Grundy and Harrison counties are included in the twenty-one counties to be reevaluated. If approved, FEMA Individual Assistance would allow eligible residents access to federal assistance for temporary housing, housing repairs, replacement of damaged belongings, vehicles, and other expenses as a result of the flooding and storms.

Individual Assistance is currently available to eligible residents in Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, and Holt counties.  As of July 17, FEMA has approved more than 500 households for Individual Assistance grants and provided more than $2.3 million. FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more tha $18 million to Missouri policyholders for flood claims filed since March.

To register for FEMA assistance, go to www.disasterassistance.gov.