Legal Assistance Hotline for Georgia Disaster Survivors- Hurricane Helene, September 2024

The following information is from a brochure created by the Georgia Legal Services Program, last reviewed on October 2, 2024.

Need Legal Assistance Hotline for Georgia Disaster Survivors? Call 1-866-584-8027 OR 1-404-527-8793

Disaster Hotline Legal Assistance Types:

• Assistance with securing FEMA and other government benefits available to disaster victims
  • You can apply for FEMA assistance online now here.
• Assistance with life, medical, and property insurance claims
• Help with home repair contracts and contractors
• Counseling on mortgage foreclosure problems
• Assistance in consumer protection matters, remedies, and procedures
• Replacement of identify and other important legal documents destroyed in the disaster
• Counseling on landlord-tenant problems

Volunteer lawyers will provide counseling, assistance, and/or referrals to aid callers in their recovery. THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE HOTLINE.

The Disaster Legal Services Hotline is a partnership between the ABA's Young Lawyers Division and Georiga Team Ready, a collaboration between Alston & Bird LLP, Georgia Legal Services Program, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, King & Spalding LLP, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, and the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia.

FREE disaster legal assistance is available for the affected individuals in the following 41 counties in Georgia:

• Appling 
• Atkinson
• Bacon
• Ben Hill
• Berrien
• Brooks
• Bulloch
• Burke
• Candler
• Chatham
• Clinch
• Coffee
• Colquitt
• Columbia
• Cook
• Echols
• Emanuel
• Evans
• Glascock
• Irwin
• Jeff Davis
• Jefferson
• Jenkins
• Johnson
• Lanier
• Laurens
• Liberty
• Lincoln
• Lowndes
• McDuffie
• Montgomery
• Pierce
• Richmond
• Screven
• Tattnall
• Telfair
• Toombs
• Treutlen
• Ware
• Washington
• Wheeler