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Provides limited fixed rate benefits consisting of the bare necessities of life such as shelter, utilities, and food allowances. Offers short term support only. Temporary financial assistance may consist of:
- Rent/mortgage payments
- Utility payments
- Food/family essentials
- Indigent burial expenses
- Miscellaneous disability care expenses
- Transportation (bus tokens)
- Homeless/Transitional housing referrals
- Other assistance as needed and as available

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Food Vouchers
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance

Provides mortgage assistance. Individuals must have a default letter either from the bank or the individual that property is being purchased from.

Helps administer emergency general relief for Veterans in need. Assists legal resident, indigent, honorably discharged Veterans, their spouses, widows, and dependent children.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

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Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Medical Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Housing counseling, foreclosure counseling. Closing cost assistance for homebuyers. Some funds available for households in foreclosure due to COVID.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Housing Down Payment Loans/Grants
Housing Counseling
Debt Management
Community Development Corporations

Offers rent and mortgage payment assistance for individuals with income experiencing a temporary crisis beyond their control.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, burial expense, prescription medication co-pays, non-emergency medical transportation, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance

Homeless Prevention Services including assistance with rent payments and utility bills. Deposit assistance is available if funding allows. All payments are made directly to landlords/providers. Short-term emergency lodging is also available through hotel vouchers when funds and space allow.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance

Financial assistance is available for mortgage/rent payments, utilities, or car repairs.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

General Assistance: Financial aid program that helps residents meet basic needs until employment or other sources of income, such as social security, disability or public aid is obtained.


Emergency Assistance: Short-term financial assistance to alleviate life-threatening circumstances or to assist in obtaining self-sufficiency. Available once every 24 months.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

Provides assistance to individuals or families who are delinquent on monthly mortgage payments.

Provides eligible homeowners with mortgage assistance who have had economic hardship to sustain housing.

When funds are available, one-time financial assistance is available for emergency situations for medications, housing, food, utilities, etc.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Temporary Financial Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Assists Polk County honorably discharged veterans, their wives, widows, and dependent children. Financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or house payments, utilities and food. Assistance may also be provided for glasses and funeral expenses

APPLICATIONS/ADMISSIONS into Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown for disabled veterans and/or spouse.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities, mortgage, medications, and other needs.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

Provides assistance with rent, mortgage, and utility payments when funds are available.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities, mortgage, medications, and other needs.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Offers emergency rent and/or mortgage assistance to eligible households in need of help. Repayment may be required.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

Provides emergency financial assistance for rent, mortgage, utilities, food, and prescription medication costs.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance

Provides emergency assistance:

-- Rent.

-- Utilities.

-- Mortgage.

-- Medicine.

-- Temporary financial assistance.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

Categories

Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Medical Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance

Provides assistance with rent, mortgage, and utilities. To receive help, funds must be available, and individuals must qualify according to grant requirements.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

Provides emergency financial assistance to those who qualify. Assistance includes rent, mortgage and utility payment assistance, and the cost of life saving prescription medications.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance

Provides assistance with rent, mortgage, and utility payments when funds are available.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Provides financial assistance designed for households with dependent children or individuals exceeding General Assistance budget guidelines and have an emergent need, such housing late payment or eviction notice, utility late payment or disconnect notice, or verified homelessness

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance