Guidance on Eligible Expenses for FEMA Grants

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Survivors who received FEMA Individual Assistance funding following the October 2025 storms and flooding in Alaska, should use it only for approved disaster-related expenses. FEMA will specify eligible uses in the award letter. Below are key guidelines to follow regarding the disaster grant.

Eligible Expenses for FEMA Grants

Survivors should only use the FEMA grant for the expenses listed in the award letter, which may include:

• Home repair or replacement.
• Reimbursement for temporary housing while being displaced.
• Essential appliances, room furnishings and a personal or family computer were damaged by the disaster.
• Books, uniforms, tools, computers and other items required for school or work, including self-employment.
• Funding toward the repair or replacement of your vehicle.
• Medical expenses include supplies and equipment, moving and storage expenses.
• Moving and storage expenses.
• Lifesaving and life-sustaining items, including water, food, first aid, prescriptions, infant formula, breastfeeding supplies, diapers and personal hygiene items.
• Subsistence equipment, snowmachines, stove oil, all-terrain vehicles, boats, smoke house, motors, fish wheel, etc., and fuel for transportation.

Survivors should keep receipts of disaster spending for at least three years. This will help document how the money was used in case of an audit. FEMA cannot pay for duplicate disaster related expenses.

FEMA may ask survivors to return expenses that were not used as intended, and they may be ineligible for assistance in future disasters.

To Apply for FEMA Individual Assistance:
FEMA designated areas include Northwest Arctic Borough, Lower Yukon Regional Education Attendance Area (REAA), Lower Kuskokwim REAA, Kashunamiut REAA, Yupiit REAA and the City of Saint Mary's.

• Call the FEMA Alaska Call Center at 1-866-342-1699 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you need a reasonable accommodation, contact the Alaska Call Center.
• Register on DisasterAssistance.gov.
• Use the FEMA App
• Visit the Bethel Assistance Hub, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, at:

AVCP Tugkar Building
570 3^rd Ave., Bethel, AK 99559

Small Business Administration

The SBA offers low-interest, long-term disaster loans to eligible homeowners and renters to repair or replace their home or personal property not covered by insurance or other assistance. Businesses and nonprofits can also apply for physical damage loans -- including loss of income.

For more information call 1-800-659-2955, go online at sba.gov/disaster, or visit one of the two Disaster Loan Outreach Centers, located at the Bethel City Hall at 300 Chief Eddie Hoffman Hwy., Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or at the University of Alaska at 1901 Bragaw St., Anchorage, AK 99508, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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FEMA is committed to ensuring disaster assistance is accomplished impartially, without discrimination on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, English proficiency, or economic status. Any disaster survivor or member of the public may contact the FEMA Civil Rights Office if they feel that they have a complaint of discrimination. FEMA's Civil Rights Office can be contacted at [email protected] or toll-free at 833-285-7448.

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