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Provides emergency financial assistance to residents who are in need, including:
- Rental and utility assistance
- Employed clients who have transportation issues
Residents can receive assistance up to three times. Each time must be 18 months apart.
- First time applicants qualify for up to $400 of assistance
- Second time applicants qualify for up to $250 of assistance
- Third (and last) time applicants qualify for up to $150 of assistance
Applicants are required to participate in a financial session before receiving funds.
Township boundaries do not follow municipal or zip code boundaries. Verify residency in this Township for services by entering the address of the individual in the magnifying glass: https://maps.lakecountyil.gov/MyGovernmentServices/.
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Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides low-interest loans from $300-$1500 to help pay for basic needs. Helps families and individuals in need avoid high-interest lenders. Loans have a 15-month term with 90-day deferment payment period and 18% APR. Funds can be used to help pay:
- Rent or security deposit
- Utilities
- Medical bills
- Auto repairs
- Technology purchases, and more
No minimum credit score required.
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Personal Loans
Offers financial aid to help Township residents avoid loss of home, job, or utilities. Funds are available once every two years and provide help to meet basic needs, including:
- Preventing eviction or past due rent/mortgage
- Preventing utility disconnection
- Work-related expense necessary to getting or keeping a job (for example, uniform or licensing fees)
- Cost of prescription medication
*Amount of assistance determined on a case-by-case basis.
*Program does not disburse cash; all funds will be paid directly to vendors.
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Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Financial assistance to individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and their families. Funds are also used in partnership with other available funding sources, based on need and specific circumstances of those being served.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides services to low-income veterans and their families who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Supportive services include:
- Housing stabilization
- Temporary financial assistance (including rent, security deposit, utilities and car repairs; based on eligibility)
- Intensive, short-term case management
- Assistance with VA and mainstream benefits
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Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides benefits to veterans and their dependents for education and job training. Programs include:
- Deceased, Disabled, and MIA/POW Veterans' Dependents Educational Opportunity Grant (Age 10-18)
- Deceased, Disabled, and MIA/POW Veterans' Dependents Scholarship
- State Approving Agency GI Bill
- Illinois Veterans' Grant
- Illinois National Guard Grant
- University of Illinois Children of Veterans Scholarship
- Veteran Coordinators at Public Universities and Colleges in Illinois
- VA Work Study Locations
- Get Academic Credit for Military Training
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Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Financial assistance, in the form of payment vouchers and monetary pledges, may include:
- Medical transportation expense assistance.
- Identification cards.
- Furniture vouchers.
- Gas money.
- Discounted bus passes.
- Dental expense assistance.
- Prescription assistance.
- Rent and utility assistance (see below).
Rent assistance may be provided depending on a number of factors:
1. Funding is available.
2. Assistance may only be provided once a year.
4. Applicant must be able to pay the remaining amount due.
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Rent Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Provides monthly assistance for basic maintenance needs for individuals without adequate income, and ineligible for any other monetary forms of assistance.
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Rent Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Families of military personnel can apply for financial assistance for a wide range of needs including but not limited to utilities, medical, and car repair. Red Cross also provides information and referral for other services for these families.
Red Cross workers use advanced communications technologies to link service members with their families. The Emergency Communications Center quickly and efficiently obtains the required information and sends emergency communication messages to service members of every branch of service wherever in the world they happen to be.
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Medical Care Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Emergency Communications
Temporary Financial Assistance
Information and Referral
Offers temporary financial assistance on a case-by-case basis for rent and utility payments. Assistance is strictly financial, and St. Vincent De Paul members cannot provide links to find work, housing, etc.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Families of military personnel can apply for financial assistance for a wide range of needs including but not limited to utilities, medical, and car repair. Red Cross also provides information and referral for other services for these families.
Red Cross workers use advanced communications technologies to link service members with their families. The Emergency Communications Center quickly and efficiently obtains the required information and sends emergency communication messages to service members of every branch of service wherever in the world they happen to be.
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Medical Care Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Emergency Communications
Temporary Financial Assistance
Information and Referral
Provides adults who receive SNAP benefits and who volunteer an opportunity to gain valuable work experience, earn cash assistance, and become self-sufficient.
Noncustodial Parent (NCP) EarnFare is designed for unemployed parents who do not have custody of their children, when their children receive TANF. It provides these parents with an opportunity to gain work experience and to meet a portion of their child support obligation.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides emergency assistance:
- Rent.
- Utilities.
- Mortgage.
- Medicine.
- Temporary financial assistance.
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Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Prescription Expense Assistance
Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities, food, and gas.
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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
ERBA administers funds from the Villa Grove Ministerial Alliance, which provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.
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Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Diapers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Provides emergency assistance:
- Rent.
- Utilities.
- Mortgage.
- Medicine.
- Temporary financial assistance.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Prescription Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Offers financial assistance to help undocumented-led families buy food and cover urgent medical expenses.
*Emergency funds for food or medicine. This will not cover rental expenses*
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Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
May provide assistance for the following"
- Rent.
- Utilities.
- Illinois American Water Bill (H20 Help to Others), up to 150 dollars once every 12 months.
- Ameren Energy Assistance Warm Neighbor Cool Friends.
- Other basic needs if funds are available.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Limited financial assistance towards out-of-pocket costs for relevant medical supplies and services, including orthotic or other mobility equipment. Also includes a one-time emergency financial assistance
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Temporary financial assistance for rent, utilities and other emergency needs for residents in the Lombard/Villa Park area.
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides short-term financial assistance to people in need (i.e., utilities, rent, transportation, medical supplies, etc.).
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Temporary Financial Assistance
Limited, short-term financial assistance to local individuals and families through the Good Samaritan Fund.
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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Provides emergency assistance:
- Rent.
- Utilities.
- Mortgage.
- Medicine.
- Temporary financial assistance.
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Rent Payment Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Prescription Expense Assistance
Emergency assistance may be available for such things as utility bill shut off notices, eviction notices, and emergency gas or food.
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Prescription Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Emergency Assistance is for those with income who are facing a life-threatening event:
- Utility Disconnect for Water or Power (Must be in applicant's name).
- Eviction Notice: recently issued, must be a registered rental.
- Other
Emergency: proof of a work-related expense to get/maintain employment (like steel-toed boots or welding helmet).
- Catastrophic: In event of a fire where there is no renter's or homeowner's insurance
and premises are no longer habitable. For security deposit and/or 1 month's rent.
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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance