Only one person has received grant to elevate home two years after NSW northern rivers floods

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Just one homeowner in the New South Wales northern rivers has received a grant to elevate their house more than two years after the flood disaster and the government has spent less than half of the recovery funding it committed to the region.

The government has also drastically revised the number of people it says have applied for financial assistance to 1,426 compared with the more than 5,000 applications it said it had received in October last year.