Disaster Preparedness - Helping your customers prepare, recover, and rebuild

In the span of less than 2 weeks, the US will deal with two significant hurricanes causing substantial destruction and even more anxiety about recovering. Much of 10-D’s staff have clients, friends and family who are directly impacted by these events and our hearts are with you. Since 10-D is located smack in the middle of the country (hello from Kansas City!), we are wholly unqualified to provide guidance related to weathering a hurricane. What we ARE qualified to do is forward resources when we see them come across our desks. On Tuesday, Sept 27, 2022, the CFPB issued a public service announcement reminding us of published guidance and available resources to help safeguard your finances in the event of disasters or emergencies which includes information related to:

These resources can be found at: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/disasters-and-emergencies/.

FEMA also provides many resources including:

If you have already been affected, here are a couple of places to begin:

If you or anyone you know could benefit from this information, you are welcome to forward this WST or publish it in part or whole to your institution’s website.

Godspeed.

Authored by: Crissy Yates, CCBP