Assistance through Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements is designed to provide immediate financial aid to communities in the hardest hit areas.
NSW Premier Mike Baird said the government was working with other affected councils to identify impacts and make more declarations where appropriate.
“This assistance package will provide a much needed helping hand to affected families and businesses and also ensure funding is available to help local councils clean up and restore damaged infrastructure.”
The recovery package includes:
- assistance to help eligible people whose homes or belongings have been damaged, and who meet an assets and income test
- assistance to help councils in the affected local government areas with the costs associated with cleaning up and restoring damaged public assets
- concessional interest rate loans for small businesses, primary producers and not-for-profit organisations; freight subsidies for primary producers
- grants to not-for-profit organisations.
Assistance is now available in the 41 local government areas of:
Ballina Bega Valley Blacktown Byron Camden Campbelltown Canterbury-Bankstown Central Coast City of Sydney Clarence Valley Coffs Harbour Eurobodalla Fairfield Hornsby Inner West Kempsey Kiama Ku-ring-gai Lane Cove Lismore Liverpool Maitland | Nambucca Northern Beaches Palerang Parramatta Penrith Port Macquarie-Hastings Queanbeyan-Palerang Randwick Richmond Valley Ryde Shellharbour Shoalhaven Snowy Monaro Sutherland The Hills Tweed Waverley Willoughby Wingecarribee Wollondilly Woollongong Woollahra |
For information on personal hardship and distress assistance, contact the Disaster Welfare Assistance Line on 1800 018 444.
To apply for a concessional loan, grant or freight subsidy, contact the NSW Rural Assistance Authority on 1800 678 593 or visit raa.nsw.gov.au.
Information on this disaster assistance is available at disasterassist.gov.au and emergency.nsw.gov.au.
