Resources / Financial Assistance
American Red Cross — Hero Care Network
The only organization chartered by Congress to independently verify emergencies for the U.S. military, providing emergency communications, referrals, and financial-assistance facilitation through the military aid societies — more than 1,300 emergency communications a day across 380+ military installations.
- Cost
- Not stated on the org's own page — the Red Cross facilitates the transfer while the military aid societies determine the type and amount of aid
- Coverage
- Nationwide and overseas military locations
- Eligibility
- Active-duty members of all branches, activated National Guard/Reserve, their immediate family members, military retirees and their spouses/widow(er)s; veterans (unless medically retired) and non-activated Reserve/Guard are not eligible
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