{"id":157628,"date":"2026-04-11T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=157628"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:57:36","slug":"mississippi-governor-tate-reeves-request-for-fema-individual-assistance-for-january-23-27-2026-winter-weather-approved-by-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-governor-tate-reeves-request-for-fema-individual-assistance-for-january-23-27-2026-winter-weather-approved-by-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves\u2019 Request for FEMA Individual Assistance for January 23\u201327, 2026 Winter Weather Approved by President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor <strong>Tate Reeves<\/strong>\u2019 request for Individual Assistance (FEMA-4899 DR-MS) for counties affected by the January 23-27, 2026, severe winter weather has been approved by President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.\u00a0Thirty six\u00a0counties and the <strong>Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians<\/strong> have been approved for Individual Assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individual Assistance\u00a0is approved for<strong>\u00a0Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, Desoto, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Leflore, Marshall, Montgomery, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Warren, Washington, Yalobusha<\/strong>, and <strong>Yazoo<\/strong> <strong>Counties\u00a0<\/strong>and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Individual assistance is available to residents in those 36 counties and can include grants for home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of this disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents in the approved counties who sustained losses during the January 23-27 winter weather will be able to apply for assistance by registering online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.disasterassistance.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>www.DisasterAssistance.gov<\/u><\/a>\u00a0or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster number is:\u00a0<strong>DR-4899.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Tate Reeves\u2019 request for Individual Assistance (FEMA-4899 DR-MS) for counties affected by the January 23-27, 2026, severe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":157629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3301,27001,25086,17556,17555,1743,34039,34040,19720,9764,7300,34038,4082,1750,34041,1749,17557,1096,1310,2204,1180,5,25989,16816,4092,4126,10189,7530,1748,19721,1779,20347,6883,34042,17561,4310,1061,19722,3196,2387,1736],"class_list":["post-157628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-adams","tag-alcorn","tag-attala","tag-benton","tag-bolivar","tag-calhoun","tag-carroll","tag-claiborne","tag-coahoma","tag-desoto","tag-donald-trump","tag-fema","tag-grenada","tag-holmes","tag-humphreys","tag-issaquena","tag-jefferson","tag-lafayette","tag-lee","tag-leflore","tag-marshall","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-band-of-choctaw-indians","tag-montgomery","tag-panola","tag-pontotoc","tag-prentiss","tag-quitman","tag-sharkey","tag-sunflower","tag-tallahatchie","tag-tate","tag-tate-reeves","tag-tippah","tag-tishomingo","tag-tunica","tag-union","tag-warren","tag-washington","tag-yalobusha","tag-yazoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mississippi-Emergency-Management-Agency.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157630,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157628\/revisions\/157630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}