Take these steps to help protect your finances from disaster, and recover if disaster strikes
- Prepare your finances for disaster by
safeguarding your financial information. Use this checklist to organize your personal records and financial documents. The fillable form is a great place to list all of your financial account information. Then, put them all in a safe place!
Checklist
The FEMA emergency financial first-aid kit can help you dig in and get all your finances and documents ready before disaster strikes, and the kit describes what to expect if disaster strikes.
Financial first-aid toolkit
- Prepare your finances for disasters by
knowing your insurance coverage.
Resources for homeowners, including an easy-to-use guide for Insurance coverage.
Resources for renters.
- Prepare your finances for disasters by setting up
emergency savings. Use this guide from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to help you build your emergency savings.
Emergency savings guide
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Recover and protect your money after disasters and avoid fraud by reviewing these helpful resources from the CFPB and this DFR information on avoiding fraud.