Disaster Unemployment Assistance Available To Hurricane Zeta Survivors In Orleans Parish

New Orleans LA

20 January, 2021

2:47 PM

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From the City of New Orleans: January 18, 2021 Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is now available to certain workers in Orleans Parish who lost income as a direct result of Hurricane Zeta. The purpose of DUA is to help workers whose primary incomes are lost or interrupted by a federally declared disaster. DUA may be available if the disaster affected your employment — even if you're self-employed, a farmer or a farm worker — and you fall under one of the following categories: Your workplace was damaged or destroyed by the disasterTransportation to work was unavailable as a direct result of the disasterYou could not get to your job because you had to travel through the disaster areaThe disaster prevented you from starting a new jobYour business suffered because you relied on the disaster area for most of its incomeYou cannot work due to an injury caused as a direct result of the major disasterYou became the breadwinner or major household support because the head of your household died as a direct result of the disasterYou became unemployed as a direct result of the disaster###/ulwww.laworks.net, the Helping Individuals Reach Employment portal. Apply for disaster unemployment assistance by Feb. 12. Claimants may also file by telephone by calling the Benefits Analysis Team at 866-783-5567 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. For the latest information on Hurricane Zeta, visit https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4577. Follow the FEMA Region 6 Twitter account at twitter.com/FEMARegion6. This press release was produced by the City of New Orleans. The views expressed are the author's own.