Special Disaster Grants – NSW Severe Weather & Flooding November 2021

The program provides a grant to primary producers to help pay for the costs of clean-up and reinstatement of primary
production enterprises that have suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster.

The grant can be used to:

• help pay for the costs of clean up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures associated with the immediate recovery of your primary production enterprise.
• Hire or lease equipment or materials to clean premises, property or equipment.
• Remove and dispose of debris, damaged goods or materials including injured or dead livestock.
• Repair or replace fencing and/or other essential property infrastructure.
• Purchase and transport fodder or feed for livestock.
• Replace livestock.
• Replace lost or damaged plants, salvage crops, repair or restore fields.
• Repair, recondition or replace essential plant or equipment.
• Maintain the health of livestock
• Pay additional wages to an employee to assist with clean-up work (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, ie. day-to-day staffing)
• Repair buildings (except dwellings, unless they are used for staff accommodation).

Funds of up to $50,000 per affected property are available. This includes $10,000 that can be provided up-front once
you’re approved. If claiming for an amount above $10,000, you will need to prove the expenditure of this amount with
valid tax invoices. Then, any payment above the original $10,000 up to an additional $40,000 will be reimbursed upon
supply of valid tax invoices for eligible expenses.

The following Local Government Areas in the Northern Inland are eligible:

• Glen Innes Severn
• Gunnedah
• Gwydir
• Inverell
• Liverpool Plains
• Moree Plains
• Narrabri
• Narromine
• Tamworth
• Tenterfield