The lawsuit contends that in filing the debt-collection lawsuits, company officials similarly signed legal documents, including sworn declarations, without reviewing the related files and bank records or even reading the documents.

NPR: Calif. Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Debt Collection

You can find specific declarations for 2013 and for 2012, including for Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac.

FORBES: Taxes From A To Z (2013): D Is For Disaster Relief

These declarations also make federal assistance available directly to affected individuals, including temporary housing assistance, low-cost loans, and other resources to help cover uninsured losses.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Mr Pitt-Payne also said he would seek declarations that the NUM should pay for the Barbican flat, including expenses from June 2011, and for the fuel, security and accountancy costs incurred by Mr Scargill since they were stopped in April 2010.

BBC: Arthur Scargill

The current drought has forced disaster declarations in 26 states and a spate of emergency conservation orders, including in Warrenton, where the city ordered residents to stop watering their lawns, shut down commercial car washes and banned and just about every other non-essential use of water.

CNN: U.S. drought biggest since 1956, climate agency says