Sunday, 12 June 2016

NSW Government - Disaster Assitance For Storm Affected Areas - Blacktown LGA is included!

I included this  to our website as there were some streets affected last weekend with the downpour rain, from the NSW Government:

Disaster assistance is available for communities affected by NSW storms.
A street flooded from storms
Assistance through Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements is designed to provide immediate financial aid to communities in the hardest hit areas.

NSW Premier Mike Baird said the government was working with other affected councils to identify impacts and make more declarations where appropriate.
“This assistance package will provide a much needed helping hand to affected families and businesses and also ensure funding is available to help local councils clean up and restore damaged infrastructure.”
 The recovery package includes:
  • assistance to help eligible people whose homes or belongings have been damaged, and who meet an assets and income test
  • assistance to help councils in the affected local government areas with the costs associated with cleaning up and restoring damaged public assets
  • concessional interest rate loans for small businesses, primary producers and not-for-profit organisations; freight subsidies for primary producers
  • grants to not-for-profit organisations.
Assistance is now available in the 37 local government areas of:
Bega
Blacktown
Byron
Camden
Campbelltown
Canterbury-Bankstown
Central Coast
City of Sydney
Coffs Harbour
Eurobodalla
Fairfield
Hornsby
Inner West
Kiama
Ku-ring-gai
Lane Cove
Lismore
Liverpool
Maitland
Northern Beaches
Parramatta
Penrith
Port Macquarie-Hastings
Queanbeyan-Palerang
Randwick
Ryde
Shellharbour
Shoalhaven
Sutherland
The Hills
Tweed
Waverley
Willoughby
Wingecarribee
Wollondilly
Woollongong
Woollahra
For information on personal hardship and distress assistance, contact the Disaster Welfare Assistance Line on 1800 018 444.
To apply for a concessional loan, grant or freight subsidy, contact the NSW Rural Assistance Authority on 1800 678 593 or visit raa.nsw.gov.au.
Information on this disaster assistance is available at disasterassist.gov.au and emergency.nsw.gov.au.

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