Assistance for uninsured
Friday, October 1, 2004
The National Recovery Fund, the official fund chaired by HE the Governor Mr. Bruce Dinwiddy, CMG, is already being put to work helping to fund roof repairs for low-income, uninsured persons.
A limit of $10,000 per house has been set, with the Recovery Fund Trustees having leeway to vary this in special circumstances. The trustees, with the assistance of the National Recovery Committee’s Reconstruction Sub-committee, have prioritized categories of eligible persons in the following order:
- households with children 0-5 years, elderly and/or terminally ill persons;
- households with children 6-12 years, chronically ill and/or disabled;
- households with children 13-17 years; and
- households with able-bodied adults with no dependents.
The trustees were working this week on forms, procedures and enlisting volunteer coordinators. However the process should be as follows:
- Forms will be available in each district from
shelters, churches, and civic centers.
- Once the form is filled out and submitted to the Trust, the form is forwarded to the Reconstruction Sub-committee which assigns an approved contractor to provide an estimate based on an agreed schedule of rates.
- When the trustees approve assessment, the contractor begins the repair.
- The Reconstruction Sub-committee will also provide an inspection service to ensure quality.
Elected members of Government who are also serving as trustees have excused themselves from any decision-making in the approval process.
Cabinet also had some input into the scheme, ensuring that small contractors be included, that well-monitored standards be set for all work, and that local labour be used whenever possible. Cabinet also wanted to ensure that the Contractors Association, in consultation with Government, should announce set scales of hourly wages for the various categories of employees that would be involved.
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