{"id":4695,"date":"2019-12-21T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2019-12-21T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:53:12","slug":"extension-of-australian-government-assistance-for-new-south-wales-bushfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/extension-of-australian-government-assistance-for-new-south-wales-bushfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension of Australian Government Assistance for New South Wales Bushfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payments of $1000 per adult and $400 per child are now available to those worst-hit by the bushfires in the local government areas of Blue Mountains, Lithgow and Singleton.<br \/>\nMinister for Natural Disaster and Emergency Management David Littleproud said the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment would help to provide dignity for those who had suffered a catastrophic loss.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is for people whose home has been severely damaged or destroyed, who&#8217;ve been seriously injured or who&#8217;ve lost a family member,&#8221; Minister Littleproud said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to take time for life to return to normal and we\u2019ll be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with these communities until they\u2019re back on their feet.<br \/>\n\u201cThis will help to cover the immediate needs of those worst hit, and help them get through the coming days.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will make further assistance available to these communities if it is needed.<br \/>\n\u201cAnyone who may meet the criteria should call the Department of Human Services to check their eligibility.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Australian Government assistance announced today is over and above the support already being provided for under the jointly funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).<br \/>\nClaims will be open from Monday 23 December 2019. For more information or to make a claim visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanservices.gov.au\/disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.humanservices.gov.au\/disaster<\/a>\u00a0or call 180 22 66. More information on Australian Government disaster assistance is available at www.disasterassist.gov.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payments of $1000 per adult and $400 per child are now available to those worst-hit by the bushfires in the local government areas of Blue Mountains, Lithgow and Singleton. Minister for Natural Disaster and Emergency Management David Littleproud said the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment would help to provide dignity for those who had suffered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/extension-of-australian-government-assistance-for-new-south-wales-bushfires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extension of Australian Government Assistance for New South Wales Bushfires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}