Craighead County, AR — (BrooklandNews.com/ Edited Press Release) — June 4, 2025 — Citizens of Arkansas are receiving assistance for major storms that occurred in March and April of 2025, as the Federal Emergency Management Agency clarifies what type of assistance is available.

FEMA’s Individual Assistance program directly helps disaster survivors with uninsured or underinsured basic critical needs such as returning a home to a safe, sanitary, functional, and accessible environment during their recovery from a disaster. FEMA cannot provide financial assistance when any other source — insurance or financial assistance from voluntary agencies –– has provided assistance for the same disaster-related need.

Under Individual Assistance, FEMA provides several types of financial and direct assistance to eligible individuals and families.

These may include, but are not limited to: | Press text to view.

Housing Assistance

Rental Assistance to rent alternate housing while an applicant is displaced from a disaster-damaged primary residence. Rental Assistance and Continued Temporary Housing Assistance may be used to rent a house, apartment, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or efficiency unit at a hotel or motel while your damaged residence is being repaired.

Lodging Expense Reimbursement for hotels, motels or other short-term lodging while an applicant is displaced from a disaster-damaged primary residence.

Home Repair Assistance to help restore an owner-occupied, disaster-damaged primary residence to safe and sanitary condition.

Replacement Assistance to help homeowners replace an owner-occupied primary residence when it is destroyed by a disaster.

Other Needs Assistance

Displacement: Helps with housing needs if you cannot return to your home because of the disaster.

Serious Needs Assistance: An upfront, flexible “per household” payment for essential items such as food, water, baby formula, breast-feeding supplies, medicine and other serious disaster-related needs. Note: This is not a reimbursement for loss of power or replacing food. It is intended for emergency needs only.

Childcare: Assistance for childcare expenses or an increase in childcare expenses caused by a disaster.

Medical/Dental: Assistance to help cover expenses related to disaster-caused injuries or illnesses.

Personal Property: Helps repair or replace appliances, room furnishings, and a personal or family computer damaged in the disaster.

Transportation: Assistance to repair or replace a vehicle damaged by the disaster when you don’t have another vehicle to use.

Miscellaneous Items: Assistance that may help pay for specific items that were purchased or rented after the disaster to help you recover. For example, a chainsaw to help clear fallen trees that prevent safe access to your home.

Moving and Storage: Assistance moving and storing personal property from your home to prevent additional damage, usually while making repairs to your home or moving to a new place due to the disaster.

Survivors in Greene, Hot Spring, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp and Stone counties may apply for federal assistance if they had damage in the March 14-15 storms. Similarly, those who were affected by the April 2-22 storms, tornadoes and flooding in Clark, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Desha, Fulton, Hot Spring, Jackson, Miller, Ouachita, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Sharp, St. Francis and White counties may also apply.

If you were affected by both disasters, you are encouraged to file a separate FEMA application for each. The deadline for the March storms is Monday, July 14. The last day to apply for the April storms is Monday, July 21.

To apply visit DisasterAssistance.gov, download the FEMA App for mobile devices or call the FEMA Helpline at 800-621-3362 between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. CT.