{"id":1607,"date":"2016-06-20T05:52:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T05:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2016-06-20T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T23:52:08","slug":"june-floods-and-disaster-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"June Floods and Disaster Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1610\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1610\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1610 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-07-at-5.00.03-pm-300x247.png\" alt=\"Bega River in flood at Tarraganda Bridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-07-at-5.00.03-pm-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-07-at-5.00.03-pm-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-07-at-5.00.03-pm-1024x843.png 1024w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-07-at-5.00.03-pm.png 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bega River in flood at Tarraganda Bridge Photo: Mahamati<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you embark on the process of cleaning up and taking stock of damage caused by the recent floods in our area and beyond, there are a number of assistance measures outlined below which you\u00a0may be eligible to receive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Declared disaster areas\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NSW Government has declared disaster assistance for residents impacted by the east\u00a0coast\u00a0storms and floods of the first week of June.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance is now available for the following eight local government areas in the south east region:\u00a0Bega,\u00a0Eurobodalla,\u00a0Kiama,\u00a0Queanbeyan-Palerang,\u00a0Shellharbour,\u00a0Shoalhaven,\u00a0Wingecarribee and\u00a0Wollongong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Included in this package is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistance to help eligible people whose homes or belongings have been damaged, and who meet an assets and income test (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergency.nsw.gov.au\/for-the-community\/disaster-assistance\/disaster-assistance-for-individuals\/for-individuals.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">see eligibility criteria here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Personal hardship and distress assistance.<\/li>\n<li>Concessional interest rate loans for small business, primary producers and not-for-profit organisations.<\/li>\n<li>Freight subsidies for primary producers.<\/li>\n<li>Grants to not-for-profit organisations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where do people need to go?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For information on personal hardship and distress assistance, contact the Disaster Welfare Assistance Line on\u00a0<strong>1800 018 444.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To apply for a concessional loan, grant or freight subsidy, contact the NSW Rural Assistance Authority on\u00a0<strong>1800 678 593<\/strong>\u00a0or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raa.nsw.gov.au\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"><strong>www.raa.nsw.gov.au<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further Information on this disaster assistance is available at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/disasterassist.gov.au\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">disasterassist.gov.au<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emergency.nsw.gov.au\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">emergency.nsw.gov.au<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you embark on the process of cleaning up and taking stock of damage caused by the recent floods in our area and beyond, there are a number of assistance measures outlined below which you\u00a0may be eligible to receive. Declared disaster areas\u00a0 The NSW Government has declared disaster assistance for residents impacted by the east\u00a0coast\u00a0storms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}