How GoFundMe can affect your FEMA eligibility

GoFundMe 如何影响您的 FEMA 资格

The Indicator from Planet Money

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2025-01-27

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With the LA wildfires still burning, we were left with a lot of questions. Today, we answer two of them: whether GoFundMe campaigns could interfere with receiving federal assistance and how much of those "proceeds" from special product sales actually go to wildfire victims. Related episodes:After the fires (Apple / Spotify) Why is insurance so expensive right now? And more listener questions (Apple / Spotify) For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • I'm Waylon Wong here with Darian Woods.

  • Hey, Darian.

  • Hey, Waylon.

  • So often on the show we do listener questions, but today is kind of a twist on that idea because we actually had our own questions.

  • We have questions and our questions are about the LA wildfires because as we were reading around, there were some curious things that popped up that we wanted to look into.

  • Yeah.

  • So for example, victims of the wildfires are understandably going to go fund me to raise money.

  • But warnings are going around that getting donations that way could make you ineligible for federal assistance.

  • We get to the bottom of that.

  • One and we explore what it means when brands say they're donating proceeds of sales to wildfire relief.

  • We will have answers for you and for us after the break.

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