In just four years, the nation has suffered the devastating effects of two major disasters. Nonetheless, there remains no effective national program in place to provide the families left jobless from a disaster with the financial support they need to survive and rebuild their lives. Instead, because of major restrictions adopted in the late 1980’s to the federally-funded Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) program, the state unemployment insurance (UI) programs are left primarily responsible for providing their only regular source of income support