Government financial assistance The following sets out the requirements and procedures for local authorities when requesting government financial assistance for response and recovery costs for civil defence emergencies. This document needs to be read alongside the Guide to the National CDEM Plan. Local authorities are initially responsible for meeting the cost of all emergency expenditure arising out of the use of resources and services provided under the direction of a Controller (or other response coordinator). Particular care should be taken to keep a clear record of who authorises any expenditure. See Claim form on page 5. Financial assistance after an emergency MCDEM Regional Emergency Management Advisors (REMAs) are available Assistance from to provide advice on the claims process and guidance on eligibility criteria. REMAs Note that MCDEM regional personnel only provide advice. Preparing and submitting claims is the responsibility of the local authorities involved. Principles for government financial support are outlined in the National General principles CDEM Plan. Claims can be made for for the and Types of claims ‘caring displaced’, ‘other response’, costs of for the are reimbursed at 100 ‘recovery’. Eligible ‘caring displaced’ percent, whereas eligible and costs are ‘other response’ ‘recovery’ reimbursed at 60 percent above a certain threshold. The claim(s) are assessed against the threshold as outlined in the Guide to the National CDEM Plan. Local authorities can make: one claim for all expenditure items, with the items listed in the categories for the and ‘caring displaced’, ‘other response’, ‘recovery’, or one claim for items related to for the submitted first, ‘caring displaced’ with all other items in a second claim, with the categories ‘other and response’, ‘recovery’. To support claims for financial assistance, during response and recovery, Maintaining a local authorities should: record during response and fill in the local and finance forms, and authority’s relevant resource recovery create a spreadsheet of items. The suggested column headings for the spreadsheet are:
Government financial assistance The following sets out the requirements and procedures for local authorities when requesting government financial assistance for response and recovery costs for civil defence emergencies. This document needs to be read alongside the Guide to the National CDEM Plan. Local authorities are initially responsible for meeting the cost of all emergency expenditure arising out of the use of resources and services provided under the direction of a Controller (or other response coordinator). Particular care should be taken to keep a clear record of who authorises any expenditure. See Claim form on page 5. Financial assistance after an emergency Assistance from REMAs MCDEM Regional Emergency Management Advisors (REMAs) are available to provide advice on the claims process and guidance on eligibility criteria. Note that MCDEM regional personnel only provide advice. Preparing and submitting claims is the responsibility of the local authorities involved. General principles Principles for government financial support are outlined in the National CDEM Plan. Types of claims Claims can be made for ‘caring for the displaced’, ‘other response’, and ‘recovery’. Eligible costs of ‘caring for the displaced’ are reimbursed at 100 percent, whereas eligible ‘other response’ and ‘recovery’ costs are reimbursed at 60 percent above a certain threshold. The claim(s) are assessed against the threshold as outlined in the Guide to the National CDEM Plan. Local authorities can make: one claim for all expenditure items, with the items listed in the categories ‘caring for the displaced’, ‘other response’, and ‘recovery’, or one claim for items related to ‘caring for the displaced’ submitted first, with all other items in a second claim, with the categories ‘other response’, and ‘recovery’. Maintaining a record during response and recovery To support claims for financial assistance, during response and recovery, local authorities should: fill in the local authority’s relevant resource and finance forms, and create a spreadsheet of items. The suggested column headings for the spreadsheet are:
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