• Due Dates for Returns Impacted by Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes and Flooding in Texas (Updated June 12, 2024) | By Gerard H. Schreiber, Jr., CPA
  
  
• Biden Administration Adds North Texas Counties to Major Disaster Declaration (6-5-24)
  Disaster Declaration includes Dallas, Denton and Collin Counties, ensuring that residents that were impacted by last month’s severe weather are eligible to apply for the FEMA Individual Assistance Program. 
  
  Visit: fema.gov/disaster/4781 | FEMA Individual Disaster Assistance can be used to cover uninsured damages to your home, vehicle or property, or for incurred costs like temporary housing, groceries or medical. )
  To apply, homeowners and renters can:
  1. Go online to disasterassistance.gov
  2. Download the FEMA App for mobile devices
  3. Call the FEMA helpline at 800-621-3362. Help is available in most languages.

   

• IRS: Tax Relief for Taxpayers Impacted by Texas Storms (5-28-24)
  
  
• Disaster Unemployment Assistance Now Available in Six Additional Counties Impacted by Recent Severe Weather, Flooding Affected workers in Eastland, Hardin, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, and Waller Counties may now also be eligible for assistance (5-23-24)
  
  
• Qualified Disaster Payments Houston Tornadoes (5-18-24)
  
  
• Insurance Company Claims Numbers (5-18-24)
  
  
• Governor Abbott Adds Counties To Disaster Declaration For Severe Weather, Flooding (5-2-24)
  
  
• Presidential Disaster Declaration (4-26-24)
  
  
• Resource List - Texas
  
  
• Qualified Disaster Payment - Houston Tornadoes
  
  
• A Guide for CPAs to Providing Disaster Assistance (9-6-21)
  
  
• Disaster Preparedness Toolkits
  
  
• Texas Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding
  
  
• DR-4781-TX
  
  
• Texas Workforce Commission - Disaster Unemployment Assistance Available in Seven Counties Impacted by Recent Severe Weather, Flooding
  
  
• Biden-Harris Administration Reforms Disaster Assistance Program to Help  Survivors Recover Faster
  
  
• FEMA Updates the Individual Assistance Program
  
  
• Harris Central Appraisal District -  Reminds Property Owners of Disaster Exemption
  
  
• Texas Comptroller Relief Information
  
  
• IRS: Disaster Relief Resource Center for Tax Professionals
  
  
• IRS: Publication 584 Casualty, Disaster, and Theft Loss Workbook (Personal-Use Property)
  
  
• U.S. Small Business Administration

• What’s Next Now That the Disaster Has Passed? (August 2020)
  
  
• Texas Attorney General - Price Gouging, Scams, and Resources for Help
  
  
• Texas Health and Human Services - Emergency benefits + Recovery safety tips
  
  
• Ready.gov 
  
  
• Picking Up the Pieces After a Disaster

2-1-1 Texas is a free help line answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 2-1-1 Texas is connected to nearly every service in the state, including government agencies, food pantries, career services, after-school programs, counseling services and many other state and local resources. During any statewide disaster response, a special Option # 4 is activated to point callers directly to disaster-related information. When Option # 4 is activated for disaster response, that is the first option that the caller hears.