FEMA Public Assistance Recovery & Appeals Engine

Audience

Recovery coordinators, grants managers, and CFOs at mid-market FEMA Public Assistance applicants — private nonprofit hospitals, private colleges, electric and water co-ops, special districts, and small municipalities

Problem

The pattern at every mid-market applicant: the eligible work is done, but the cost records live in scattered payroll exports, invoices, force-account timesheets, PO systems, and insurance settlements. FEMA obligates the dollars fast and reconciles them slowly, and when a cost "cannot be verified with the documentation provided" it gets deobligated at closeout — often years later, on a hard 60-day clock nobody was watching.

Offer

On Reoblige, recovery teams stop hand-assembling FEMA binders and start defending obligated dollars. Cost records land at intake; every cost line is mapped to PAPPG V5 eligibility and 2 CFR 200 cost principles; the gap scan flags exactly what FEMA will cite; a senior PA specialist releases; the authorized representative certifies and submits the Recovery File.

Operating process

[
  {
    "body": "Cost records, prior FEMA letters, and insurance settlements land in the secure portal against a structured checklist per Project Worksheet.",
    "title": "Intake"
  },
  {
    "body": "Every document is parsed to a canonical cost-line schema — source doc, date, amount, category, project, facility.",
    "title": "Normalize"
  },
  {
    "body": "Each cost line is mapped to PAPPG V5 eligibility and 2 CFR 200 cost principles; ineligible and edge-case work is flagged.",
    "title": "Eligibility map"
  },
  {
    "body": "The engine tests cost reasonableness, runs the insurance-offset math and procurement checks, and predicts exactly what FEMA will cite.",
    "title": "Gap scan"
  },
  {
    "body": "A senior PA specialist reviews flagged items, the drafted Project Worksheet or appeal, and red-teams the file: \"will FEMA cite this?\"",
    "title": "Specialist release"
  },
  {
    "body": "The authorized representative certifies; the Recovery File and submission checklist go to the Recipient and FEMA with a full audit trail.",
    "title": "Certify & submit"
  }
]

Evidence status

Domain-design coverage

Passed: 20; total: 20; coverage: 100.

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