https://www.raa.nsw.gov.au/disaster-assistance/storm-and-flood-programs/SDG-Nov21-and-Jan22
Eligible items and activities | Evidence you must provide to claim | |
a) | Hiring or leasing equipment or materials to clean premises, property or equipment. | Lease agreement, valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
b) | Removing and disposing of debris, damaged goods, materials including injured or dead livestock. | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
c) | Repairing or replacing fencing and/or other essential property infrastructure. | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
d) | Purchasing and transporting fodder or feed for livestock. | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
e) | Replacing livestock (including oyster spat). | Evidence may include: · NLIS Tags numbers, · LLS land and stock return, · letter from a veterinarian if animals are euthanised, · livestock schedule from your accountant · tax invoices as evidence of purchase of oyster stock · evidence of a history of wild oyster spat catching |
f) | Replacing lost or damaged plants, salvaging crops, repairing or restoring fields. | Evidence must include: ● Details of when the original crop was planted and how much has been damaged (ha), and ● Proof of input costs originally outlaid through valid tax invoices and proof of payment, and ● A schedule of costs to reinstate the crop stating when work is to be undertaken. |
g) | Repairing, reconditioning or replacing essential plant or equipment. | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment and evidence that plant and equipment was damaged beyond repair to claim replacement. |
h) | Maintaining the health of livestock | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
i) | Paying additional wages to an employee to assist with clean-up work (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, ie. day-to-day staffing) | For full time employees - PAYG statement with YTD and salary details (for example standard hours per week). The payslip would also need to note any overtime worked which may be reimbursed under this expense. For casual staff evidence of the number of average hours they were working prior to the event and evidence of hours over and above evidenced by PAYG slips. |
j) | Repairing buildings (except dwellings, unless they are used for staff accommodation). | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |
k) | The replacement of physical assets to return infrastructure to its previous standard, or to a standard that does not jeopardise future resilience. | Valid tax invoice and proof of payment. |