Additionally, Bluffton Self Help provided families with short-term emergency financial assistance toward housing and utility assistance, medical assistance, or children's program assistance.

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Doing so would involve policies toward the Soviet Union starkly different from those now being pursued by virtually every industrialized democracy namely the practice of offering essentially unconditional economic, financial, food, medical and technology assistance as well as diplomatic and political support to the central authorities in Moscow.

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But holding credit card debt rather than medical debt could hinder your ability to get financial assistance if you run into trouble paying your bills.

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