Pearl, Miss. – Mississippi residents who applied for the Statewide Residential Safe Room Grant Program will start receiving notices this week that they have been selected for a reimbursement grant. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency received more than 11,000 applications for a lottery drawing. The program was designed to award 38 recipients from each of the state's 82 counties. In those counties that did not have 38 applicants, those additional grants were placed into a second statewide lottery drawing and selected.
Applicants selected in the lottery will be notified via email from no-reply@my.msema.org with instructions on how to continue the application in Step 2 of the process. MEMA encourages everyone who applied for the Statewide Residential Safe Room Grant to check their email (including the junk and spam email folders) to see if they were drawn in the lottery process.
Applicants who were not selected in the lottery draw will not receive an email.
It is critical that selected applicants understand they are not to purchase or install a safe room at this stage. While they will need to obtain a quote to submit, no down payments should be made, nothing should be ordered, and nothing should be installed. Doing so will disqualify them from the program. Applicants may purchase or install a safe room only after receiving an official approval letter from MEMA.
This reimbursement grant program will provide up to $3,500 to help Mississippi homeowners install a FEMA-compliant safe room/ storm shelter on their property to protect themselves from severe weather.
For more information on the Statewide Residential Safe Room Grant Program, visit Statewide Residential Safe Room Grant Program | Mississippi Emergency Management Agency or call 1-833-592-6362 (MEMA).
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