RDN News Release - Disaster Financial Assistance Available

Emergency Management BC (EMBC) has announced that as a result of the damages sustained from the major flooding event that started on November 14, 2021, provincial Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) has been authorized for qualifying claimants, such as homeowners, residential tenants, small business owners, farmers, charitable organizations and local government bodies, who are unable to obtain insurance to cover these disaster-related losses. Disaster Financial Assistance has been authorized for Vancouver Island and southwest and central areas of the province, including all first nation communities, electoral areas and municipalities within the geographic boundaries of these areas.

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