Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) & Other Nonprofits 

What it offers:

• Emergency assistance including disaster supply kits and financial grants to veterans and surviving spouses impacted by hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and fires.

• The supply kits include: 

  • Backpacks, blankets and hygiene kits provide an additional resource for safety, relief, and self-sufficiency in an extended emergency, disaster or evacuation. 

• The hygiene kit include:

  •  basic necessities like a toothbrush and toothpaste, razors and shaving cream, hand sanitizer, deodorant, shampoo and soap.

Eligibility requirements (one per family per disaster):

• The applicant must be an ill, injured or wounded veteran or the spouse thereof (same household); or a surviving spouse in receipt of Death Compensation or Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC); or a surviving spouse of a former Prisoner of War (POW); or a surviving spouse of an ill, injured or wounded veteran whose life was lost in the recent disaster.

• The applicant does not need to be a member or in receipt of service connected compensation to be eligible.

• The applicant must be the victim of either an isolated or large-scale disaster.

• The applicant must be in immediate need of financial assistance, at the time of the disaster, as they do not have available funds to pay for acquired expenses. Example: Veteran is covered by homeowners insurance, but will not receive compensation from the insurance for the incident until several days out.