When administering Public Assistance program grants, FEMA separates the work into two “types”: Emergency Work and Permanent Work. Within those two “types” of work, there are seven discrete “categories” of work. Learn more about FEMA’s Categories of Work and how projects are classified in the PA program.

If the federal government follows through with its promise to significantly reduce the scope of FEMA or eliminate it altogether, state emergency management agencies will need to come up with a new playbook to handle largescale disasters. Who will pay for it and how?

The Public Assistance (PA) program is FEMA’s largest and most crucial grant program, devoted to helping communities stabilize, maintain operations, and return to “normal” as quickly as physically possible after a disaster.

The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) strengthened the US federal government’s disaster relief capabilities and placed more emphasis on pre-disaster hazard mitigation planning.