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OMB Control No: 1660-0061	ICR Reference No: 202202-1660-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202005-1660-005
Agency/Subagency: DHS/FEMA	Agency Tracking No: Emergency - Appeals
Title: Federal Assistance to Individuals and Households Program (IHP)
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 02/16/2022
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 02/14/2022
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/14/2022
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	08/31/2022	6 Months From Approved	01/31/2024
Responses	112,089	0	185,109
Time Burden (Hours)	98,609	0	150,836
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: This information collection provides disaster survivors the opportunity to request approval of late applications, continued temporary housing assistance, request advance disaster assistance, stop payments not received in order to be reissued funds, and to appeal program decisions. This collection also allows for the establishment of an annual agreement between FEMA and states, territories, and tribal governments regarding how the Other Needs provision of IHP will be administered: by FEMA, by the state, territory, or tribal government, or jointly.

Emergency Justfication: On August 16, 2021, FEMA requested emergency approval to increase the types of documentation FEMA may accept from applicants for disaster assistance to demonstrate eligibility under the IHP during the Disaster Assistance Registration period. FEMA had become aware that IHP requirements for verification of eligibility during registration were creating barriers to assistance. As a result, OMB approved our expansion of documentation acceptance during disaster assistance registration earlier this year. Emergency approval of the proposed revisions to this collection is required to ensure FEMA is able to more efficiently administer the IHP assistance and evolve in order to more equitably support the ongoing pandemic response and meet the historical demands of disaster response. The ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, in concert with the current flu season and fluctuating restrictions have impacted the timely availability of essential services. Medical and dental providers sometimes require applications to pay for documentation or for providers to complete required forms. This poses additional barriers to disaster survivors by limiting their ability to obtain personal, public, and commercial records to verify their eligibility and further underscores the need for FEMA to rapidly implement alternatives to traditional means of verifying disaster survivor IHP eligibility.

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	112,089	185,109	-72,968	-52
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	98,609	150,836	-52,218	-9
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Increase Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: The decrease in annual cost burden for the Appeal of Program Decision / No Form instrument is due to a decrease in the number of years included in review period. There was also a duplicate of the former 009-0-95S labeled as 009-0-95 that was removed due to that duplication. All instruments had a slight increase in Average Burden per Response due to a change in how they were rounded (to the tenth instead of to the hundredth).

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,078,561

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Millicent Brown 202 646-2814 millicent.brown@fema.dhs.gov