A one-off payment of $1,000 will be available for eligible adults and $400 for eligible children who were seriously injured, displaced, whose homes have been damaged, or had a family members who had lost their life as a result of the storms and floods. According to SES Deputy Commissioner Daniel Austin, cleanup operation will go for many more weeks after the floods had subsided and well into Easter.[1] The NSW government had announced it was broadening its disaster recovery assistance to cover another 18 local government areas in Sydney.[1]