Senior couple needs car payment assistance
An elderly woman, who is 58 and not eligible for senior programs yet, called to ask for assistance in paying her delinquent water bill and car payment. Her husband, who is also elderly, has suffered, "severe medical challenges," this last year. He has not worked for over 2 years trying to recover from three separate medical issues that have cost them financially by added bills and the fact that he cannot work. This has caused stress for the wife as she is struggling to support him and keep her job in the public sphere working for the local government. She loves her job but it doesn't pay as much as her husband was earning. She also has mobility issues which makes it difficult to maintain their home since she is the only one that can do it. She is asking for help with her car payment to keep going to work, take husband to scheduled medical appointments and keep her household running. Although she is delinquent on her water bill, that is $450.00 as well, she said she wanted to focus on her car payment and she would figure that out herself. (If anyone wanted to help this this, that would be appreciated:) The CAP Agency's Energy Assistance Program (EAP) does not help this year with water bills since this was just effective during the COVID-19 Pandemic declaration. The husband feels he should be able to get back to work sometime this year but wants to make sure he doesn't suffer a setback by starting to early and is listening to his doctors for his two, distinct illnesses. Thank you to anyone reading this and thank you if you could contribute to this cause. She is applying for EAP and is seeking food resources to lessen that on her strained finances. If anyone wants more details, let me know. She wanted to protect her identify so isn't comfortable disclosing the exact medical diagnosis, but both can be fatal so she is lucky that he is recovering. Thank you.$0.00 of $450.45
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Submitted by:
Terry Hassan - thassan@capagency.org
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What caused this need?
A concerned, older, wife wants help with a car payment to continue working and supporting her also, older husband, who has suffered two major illnesses over the past two years and is still trying to become able to go back to work. Thanks you. He is hoping to go back to work this year. Once he is working and making more money than his wife, they will be stable and able to pay their own bills. His health struggles were not anticipated and therefore, were not able to plan for these back-to-back "severe medical challenges," as his wife described them. Thank you again.
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