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Cash-grant program for families with low income experiencing household emergencies. Families can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Families must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help.
Allowable Expenses:
- Housing: Rent payment. Verification of payment overdue or threat of eviction notice required.
- Utilities: Verification of pending utility shut-off required
Provides personalized support based on each individual's unique situation. Services may include connecting individuals to community resources, short-term case management, and emergency financial assistance when funding is available. Funds may be for rent, utilities, transportation, emergencies, medical/dental expenses, or other basic needs. Emergency funds are often used for: - Car repairs/transportation emergencies (not gas cards) - Electric, gas, and water bills in cases of disconnection - Medical and dental emergencies - Rent, rent deposit, and mortgage payments - Other basic needs crises (on a case-by-case basis)
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Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing household emergencies. Families can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Families must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. Emergency assistance provides short-term, one-time assistance for households in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, or other emergency need.
Provides assistance and support to veterans and their dependents in obtaining benefits through county, federal, and state programs including:
- Burial and death benefits
- Dental and healthcare benefits
- Disability compensation
- Education and training
- Home loan guarantees
- Job placement services
- Mental health services
- Pension benefits
- State Subsistence Assistance: Financial assistance for healthcare insurance premiums, personal needs funds, shelter-associated payments (association dues, homeowners' insurance, mortgage, rent, room and board, and property taxes), and utility assistance (cell phone, electric, gas, internet, propane, sanitation/sewer, and water). Additional information can be found on the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs website: https://mn.gov/mdva/resources/familyassistance/financialassistance.jsp
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Cash-grant program for families with low incomes experiencing household emergencies such as eviction or utility shut-off prevention. Families can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Families must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help.
Types of emergencies:
- Mortgage assistance
- Rent payment assistance or rental deposit assistance
- Utilities (electric, gas, heat, and water) to prevent shut off
Provides assistance with the following when all other resources have been exhausted: - Food vouchers - Housing assistance including coordinated entry and search assistance - Other emergency needs (when funding is available) - Rent payment assistance - Transportation - Utility service payment assistance including electric, gas, and heating fuel - Youth summer camp scholarships (when funding is available)
Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Adults must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. Short-term, one-time grant assistance for persons in a financial crisis because of fire, flood, storm, illness, accident, theft, utility shut-off, eviction, foreclosure, moving expense, necessary home repairs, or need for furniture or appliance replacement or repair.