B.C. expands eligibility for Disaster Assistance Program
Posted December 5, 2021 12:10 pm.
Last Updated December 5, 2021 12:13 pm.
If you suffered from flooding and landslides during the atmospheric rivers and didn’t have insurance, the provincial government is expanding its potential coverage of those losses.
The Disaster Financial Assistance program is now being activated for most parts of the province, beyond the Fraser Valley.
Anyone who was uninsured and lives in a city, town or Indigenous community on Vancouver Island and in the Northwest, Southwest, Southeast and Central areas of the province can now apply for financial relief.
However, the DFA will only apply to those who had flood losses that couldn’t have been reasonably covered by insurance.
“DFA is available to homeowners, residential tenants, business owners, farm owners, and charitable organizations that were unable to obtain insurance to cover disaster-related losses,” a statement from the province reads.
The B.C. government assesses each application for those impacted from Nov. 14 to Dec. 2, on an individual level.
