FEMA

Understanding Your FEMA Letter is important. Please read below for tips on understanding your FEMA letter. Translations in English and Spanish.

• How to Appeal FEMA’s Decision – Spanish
• Understanding Your FEMA Letter – Spanish
• Understanding Your FEMA Letter

More FEMA information

Documenting Home Ownership and Occupancy for Disaster Assistance in Kentucky

As part of the disaster assistance process, FEMA must determine ownership and occupancy of damaged primary residences. The agency has taken steps to make it easier for disaster survivors in Kentucky to verify ownership and occupancy.
Owners and renters must be able to prove they occupied the disaster-damaged primary residence before receiving Housing Assistance and some types of Other Needs Assistance. FEMA now accepts a broader range of documentation.

Read more in FEMA Fact Sheet 008 – DR-4630-KY

Supplies

If You Need Need Mental Health or Case Management Resources:

• Call LifeSkills Crisis Hotline at 1-800-223-8913 or 211

Legal Services:

• BG Human Rights Commission INC 270-782-7900
• KY Legal Aid 270-782-5740
• Lawyers Care 270-782-1923

Kentucky Agriculture Tornado Resources:

• kyagr.com/tornado

Transportation

Financial and Transportation Assistance

HOTEL INC has recently partnered with the City of Bowling Green to address the lasting effects of the December tornadoes. Their Navigators will work to partner with victims impacted by the tornadoes to address the mid- and long-term facets of their recovery. Additionally, they may be able to assist those impacted with temporary financial assistance as they await their Disaster Unemployment Assistance, while they wait for their impacted employment to return or while seeking new employment.

They are also able to assist victims impacted by the tornadoes with their transportation needs through a partnership with the City of Bowling Green and utilizing Uber vouchers. These vouchers will assist victims with getting to work, school, medical appointments, the grocery store, religious services, and to any tornado recovery appointments. Go here for more information https://hotelincbg.com/tornado-assistance.

Financial

Please contact the Department of Revenue for questions regarding state tax extensions and other tax relief available to individuals and businesses in counties included in the federal disaster declaration issued on Dec. 12. 2021.

Website: https://revenue.ky.gov
Address: Kentucky Department of Revenue, 501 High Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Phone: 502.564.4581
Fax: 502.564.3875
Email: revenue.ky.gov/Get-Help/Pages/Contact-Us.aspx
Printable Resource: FAQs on Disaster Relief Sales and Use Tax Refund; Requesting copies of lost tax returns

Small Business Administration

The U.S. Small Business Administration offers low-interest disaster loans to both businesses and homeowners affected by the storms.

What Types of Disaster Loans are Available?

• Business Physical Disaster Loans – Loans to businesses to repair or replace disaster-damaged property owned by the business, including real estate, inventories, supplies, machinery and equipment. Businesses of any size are eligible. Private, non-profit organizations such as charities, churches, private universities, etc., are also eligible.
• Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) – Working capital loans to help small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, non-profit organizations of all sizes meet their ordinary and necessary financial obligations that cannot be met as a direct result of the disaster. These loans are intended to assist through the disaster recovery period.
• Home Disaster Loans – Loans to homeowners or renters to repair or replace disaster-damaged real estate and personal property, including automobiles.

Go here for more information.