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Rent or Mortgage Assistance · About this organization

What you get

One current month of rent or mortgage, paid to your landlord or lender during an extended hospitalization.

How to start

Gather current pay, bank, housing, and guardianship documents requested by the form.

Good to know

  • Your child must be in a current extended hospitalization.
  • You must give evidence of financial hardship.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open

Pays one current month of rent or mortgage directly to the landlord or lender for an eligible Arizona family caring for a critically ill or injured child during an extended hospitalization. Past-due housing and pre-foreclosure accounts are excluded.

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What help you may get

Household Bills And Cash Assistance

Rent or Mortgage Assistance — household bills and cash assistance

Pays one current month of rent or mortgage directly to the landlord or lender for an eligible Arizona family caring for a critically ill or injured child during an extended hospitalization. Past-due housing and pre-foreclosure accounts are excluded.

Amount decided by the program

Can cover

  • One current month's rent
  • One current monthly mortgage payment, including covered principal, interest, taxes, insurance, or mortgage insurance shown on the statement
  • One current monthly rent payment on an unexpired lease
  • One current mortgage payment including listed taxes and insurance

Does not cover

  • A mortgage in pre-foreclosure status
  • Housing other than the child’s primary residence
  • Past-due or back rent or mortgage payments
  • The approved amount is one current monthly rent or mortgage payment shown by the qualifying lease or statement; no separate dollar ceiling is published.
  • Additional awards may be considered after 12 months or when a child with a chronic illness has a significant health-status change.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. Childhood cancer can meet the program's broad critically ill child criterion when all other rules are met.

Age

Age 0 to age 18, measured at application.

  • The official guidelines say the family must have a child “up to 18 years of age.”

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

  • A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
  • A medical care provider, social worker, or hospital administrator must certify the illness or injury.
  • The child must have a current extended hospitalization stay.
  • The applying parent or legal guardian must be a U.S. citizen.

Financial need is required.

  • The reviewed official pages do not publish a numerical income rule.
  • Approval is case by case and based on available funds.
  • The family must provide evidence of financial hardship.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: AZ.

  • The applying parent or legal guardian must reside in Arizona and be a U.S. citizen.
  • The lease or mortgage must cover the child’s primary Arizona residence.

Where your child is treated

No treatment-location restriction is published.

How to get started

Get ready to apply

Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.

Who can start: Parent Or Guardian

  1. Have a medical provider or hospital social worker submit certification separately.
  2. Provide current pay, bank, housing, and guardianship documents requested by the form.
  3. Provide illness certification, financial-hardship evidence, and current housing documents.
  4. Review all family eligibility guidelines.
  5. Start the application from the official Apply page.
  6. Submit the family housing application.
  7. Wait for case-by-case verification and a final decision.
  8. Wait for committee review and direct-vendor payment if approved.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Current month and year mortgage statement or unexpired lease agreement
  • Evidence of financial hardship
  • Illness or injury certification from a medical care provider, social worker, or hospital administrator
  • Two recent pay stubs from all income sources
  • Care Fund pays an approved current rent or mortgage payment directly to the landlord or mortgage holder.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 24, 2026
  • Approval is case-by-case and subject to available funds.
  • The guidelines link to an active application and publish no fixed cycle.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Application and medical forms contain stale titles/contact details and should be confirmed.
  • Approval depends on verification and available funds.
  • No numerical hardship threshold or review timeline is published.
  • Only a current primary-residence payment is considered; arrears and pre-foreclosure accounts are excluded.
  • The applicant must be an Arizona-resident U.S. citizen.
  • The child must be in a current extended hospitalization.
  • Confirm current funding, citizenship interpretation, inpatient-duration rule, and application/form inconsistencies.

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program