FREE LEGAL HELP AVAILABLE
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230928/free-legal-help-available]


Release Date: 
9월 28, 2023 

LAKE MARY, FLA. – A free legal help hotline is now available to
eligible individuals affected by Hurricane Idalia in Citrus, Columbia,
Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Jefferson, Lafayette, Levy,
Madison, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, Suwannee or Taylor
counties.

The hotline is available to connect those who are unable to afford an
attorney to free legal services. Survivors may call the toll-free
legal services hotline anytime and leave a message for a callback at
(866) 550-2929.

Callers may get help with legal issues such as:

	* Securing FEMA and other government benefits available to disaster
survivors
	* Home repair contracts and property insurance claims
	* Replacement of wills and other important legal documents lost or
destroyed in the disaster
	* Consumer protection issues such as price-gouging and avoiding
contractor scams in the rebuilding process
	* Counseling on landlord or tenant problems, or threats of
foreclosure
	* Disability-related access to federal, state, and local disaster
programs

The Disaster Legal Services (DLS) program works with state and local
partners to provide free legal help for low-income disaster survivors.
The service is a partnership between the American Bar Association
Young Lawyers Division
[https://www.americanbar.org/groups/young_lawyers/about/initiatives/disaster-legal-services/],
FEMA [https://www.disasterassistance.gov/] and The Florida Bar Young
Lawyers Division
[https://www.floridabar.org/about/section/section-YL/]. DLS attorneys
are not FEMA employees.

For the latest information on Florida’s recovery from Hurricane
Idalia, visit floridadisaster.org/updates/
[http://www.floridadisaster.org/updates/]and fema.gov/disaster/4734
[https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4734]. Follow FEMA on X, formerly known
as Twitter, at twitter.com/femaregion4
[https://twitter.com/femaregion4] and at facebook.com/fema
[https://www.facebook.com/fema].