Agencies must coordinate and share disaster applicant data with safeguards
What the document says“the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide data on disaster applicants to the Department, including, when necessary, personally identifiable information, disaster recovery needs, and resources determined eligible for, and amounts expended”
The section requires the Secretary to coordinate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency so far as practicable in carrying out the new grants, and requires the Department to set up data sharing agreements that safeguard privacy. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration must give the Department data on disaster applicants, including personal information where necessary, for major disasters. The Secretary may pass appropriate information to grantees, Department offices, technical assistance providers, and lenders, and grantees must report on who was assisted so the Secretary can share it back. Transfers require an information sharing or computer matching agreement and publication of intent in the Federal Register, or a data sharing agreement with adequate privacy safeguards.
What the document actually says“the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide data on disaster applicants to the Department, including, when necessary, personally identifiable information, disaster recovery needs, and resources determined eligible for, and amounts expended”
Two other agencies must hand data to the housing agency. It covers people who asked for disaster help. It can include facts that name a person. It can show what they need and what they got.
Sharing data helps stop the same loss being paid twice. It also saves survivors from filling in the same form again. Written agreements must guard private details.
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