PAPPAIA is built to read published FEMA Public Assistance guidance and return cited, explainable, and independently verifiable answers for eligibility, documentation, and audit prep.
PAPPAIA is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency.
What people ask it
How the answers are built
59 searchable documents: both PAPPG editions, 44 CFR Part 206, 2 CFR Part 200 before and after its October 2024 revision, the Stafford Act, and FEMA's PA policies and fact sheets. Every source is listed before you sign up.
See the full source list →Documents are indexed by section, so a citation points at a specific passage — document, chapter, section, page — and you can open it and read it yourself.
Set your disaster's declaration date and answers come from the PAPPG edition in force on that date: Version 4 for declarations from June 1, 2020 through January 5, 2025, v5.0 Amended on or after January 6, 2025. Sources published after your event date are flagged.
The PAPPG paraphrases the regulation constantly. When a passage cites a CFR section that is in the library, PAPPAIA pulls that section's text in as its own numbered source.
Answers are drawn from the loaded policy documents and anything you attach — not from a web search. Answers are grounded in cited policy sources and include exact references for independent verification.
Emergency and permanent work, Categories A through G, procurement, insurance, management costs, appeals and closeout — the whole grant lifecycle sits in the corpus.
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Plain-language explainers on the appeal clock, which edition governs, documentation, and procurement — each listing every source it used, with page numbers, and the date its citations were last checked against the current eCFR, the U.S. Code, and FEMA.gov.
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