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“People allowed into the United States through immigration parole should not qualify for FEMA individual disaster aid, regardless of the parole program or reason they were allowed in.”
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“D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands should be treated like states for federal disaster tax deadline relief, so their leaders can seek delayed IRS deadlines after qualifying disasters.”
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“The President should have to choose someone inside FEMA to focus on veterans when FEMA works on federal disaster and emergency assistance.”
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“When the IRS gives taxpayers more time to pay because of a disaster or similar event, the IRS should use the later payment deadline before sending certain tax collection notices?”
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“When the IRS gives taxpayers extra time to file because of a disaster or similar event, that extra time should also count when deciding how much refund or tax credit they can still claim?”
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“The government should extend all related tax deadlines -- including refund deadlines -- when it gives disaster victims extra time to file their taxes.”
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“The federal government should pay at least 75 percent of certain direct disaster housing costs and reimburse higher administrative and management costs for states running individual aid and for crisis counseling or case management grants.”
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“Eligible taxpayers should be able to lower their federal income tax by up to $500 when they buy an emergency generator for their main home.”
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“FEMA should be able to help repair disaster-damaged main homes, utilities, and related infrastructure before a home becomes unlivable, help pay for cost-effective safety upgrades, and arrange repairs directly when cash help would not work well.”
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“People harmed by disasters should be able to get clear, fair, and timely help for housing, repairs, health needs, and basic recovery.”
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“FEMA should not use a disaster survivor's insurance as the reason to deny, reduce, or limit FEMA temporary housing help after a disaster.”
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“For certain required disaster-related federal tax deadline extensions, affected taxpayers should get at least 120 days instead of at least 60 days.”
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“People should not have to pay federal income tax on qualified wildfire relief payments for uncovered losses from federally declared forest or range fires, including certain living costs, lost wages, injuries, deaths, emotional distress, and property losses.”
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“FEMA should consider local rent increases after disasters when setting rental assistance and study whether renters face special problems getting disaster help compared with homeowners.”
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“FEMA should be able to reimburse state, tribal, and local governments for sheltering emergency workers and their household members for up to six months after a disaster period when local damage seriously disrupts normal emergency operations.”
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“People whose personal property is damaged or destroyed in certain federally declared disasters should be able to use special tax rules that can make casualty loss deductions easier to claim.”
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“States seeking to manage disaster housing should know how FEMA will judge their plans, explain how survivors will move from temporary help to stable long-term housing, and offer choices among communities or properties when practical.”
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“Governors and the D.C. mayor should be able to ask Treasury to delay federal tax filing, payment, and other IRS deadlines after severe state-declared disasters such as fires, floods, storms, droughts, or explosions. Treasury would still decide whether to grant the delay.”
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“States and tribes should be able to manage some disaster housing aid when FEMA approves their plans, they plan for permanent housing, and survivors have some choice about where they stay.”
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“People receiving certain FEMA-arranged home repairs could be blocked from getting rental or other housing aid at the same time, unless FEMA makes an exception for continued temporary housing needs.”
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“FEMA should run one online place where disaster survivors can apply for multiple aid programs, with agencies able to share needed applicant information, train staff, report data leaks quickly, post sharing agreements, and use faster data-collection steps after major disasters.”
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“FEMA should create one main system where disaster survivors can apply for multiple existing aid programs, check case status, update information, get documents, communicate with agencies, and receive recovery resource referrals without creating new benefits or forcing people to apply to every program.”
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“People seeking federal disaster help should be able to use one online account or common form to send and manage information for multiple aid programs, with optional demographic questions on direct aid forms.”
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“FEMA should have someone responsible for speaking up so veterans are treated fairly when FEMA provides disaster and emergency help that current law already allows.”
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“People who already paid federal tax on qualified wildfire relief payments should get at least one year to ask the IRS for a refund, and some normal limits on how much the IRS can refund would not apply to those claims.”
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