To the extent that any analysis required by this paragraph relates to any program for which Federal financial assistance is distributed under a formula prescribed by law, such analysis shall be organized by State and within each State by major metropolitan area if data are available.
Aid groups need to share information quickly in a crisis to ensure aid and assistance is distributed as effectively as possible.
After the assistance was distributed, the Red Cross shifted focus toward reconstruction.
This section covers the actual management, or handling, of funds pertaining to a Federal program, specifically on how Federal assistance is distributed to recipients and how recipients manage the funds until disbursement.
"It clearly doesn't make any sense to give assistance to a recipient twice for the same needs," said Jack Madden, a spokesman for the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, which oversees how aid is distributed.
This program is not an entitlement; eligibility and selection are determined by the Rex and Ellen Adams Loan Assistance Program Administrators, and awards are distributed on a funds-available basis.
Billions of dollars are distributed annually under this entitlement for (1) Foster Care, (2) Adoption Assistance and (3) Kinship Guardianship Assistance.
Leaflets are distributed.
Humanitarian aid to Venezuela has been slow, compared with the need, because of the intransigence of President Nicolás Maduro — who has blamed deprivations on U.S. sanctions and refused to allow anything beyond a trickle of assistance to enter the country — and the reluctance of some donors to allow assistance to be distributed by the Maduro government.
In total, more than $1 billion in cash assistance has been distributed so far by FEMA, to 162,000 families, mostly in New York and New Jersey, earning Hurricane Sandy a spot as one of the most expensive storms in the history of the agency's disaster assistance program for individuals and families.
