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Housing & income assistance

The grants and refunds you are owed, claimed properly.

Allocation Grant Refund guides seniors, retired people, teachers and families with children through housing assistance, allocation payments and refundable credits — from the first question to the final decision letter.

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  • No application fees, ever
  • Phone and in-person support
  • Help gathering documents
  • Appeals if you are declined
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92%

of reviewed households qualified for at least one program they had not claimed.

$50,000typical award range

18,400+

Households assisted

$41M

Benefits and refunds secured

11 days

Average time to a decision

$0

Cost to apply with us

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Featured success story

$200,000

received by a retired couple to buy a new home

After thirty-one years on the job, Harold and Ruth were living on a fixed pension and could no longer keep up the repairs on their old house. Their housing assistance award covered the deposit and closing costs on a single-storey home they can actually manage — paid straight to the household.

  • Household: two retired people
  • Program: senior housing assistance
  • Award: $200,000 USD
  • Paid straight to the household
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Beneficiary stories

Happy households, and the awards that got them there

Every story below belongs to a named household who agreed to be shown. Surnames are reduced to an initial and contact details are never published.

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Marcus W. · received 2026

Disability & accessibility support

$20,000

received by a disabled father to make his own home usable again

Marcus uses a wheelchair and lives at home with his three children. The front steps, the kitchen and the bathroom were all built for someone who could stand. His award paid for a concrete ramp at the front door, two widened doorways and a roll-under kitchen with a lower counter and pull-out cabinets — so he cooks, hosts and lives in the same house his children grew up in.

  • Household: father and three children
  • Program: disability & accessibility support
  • Award: $20,000 USD
  • Paid straight to the household
A smiling teacher seated at her classroom desk after hours with folders and a calculator
Denise A. · received 2026

Educator relief grant

$3,480

reimbursed to a teacher who funded her own classroom for six years

Denise has taught third grade for nineteen years and has quietly replaced pencils, paper and read-aloud books out of her own pocket every September. Her adviser collected six years of receipts, filed the reimbursement claim the school never processed and paired it with a supply allowance for the year ahead. The money came back as a single payment.

  • Household: single-earner teacher
  • Program: educator relief
  • Award: $3,480 USD
  • Filed in one visit
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Eleanor M. · received 2026

Senior housing support

$2,800

secured for a retiree to keep the house she built her life in

Eleanor, 78, has lived in the same house since her children were small. When her pension stood still but the tax and heating bills did not, she was choosing between the furnace and the garden she tends every morning. Her review recovered a property tax rebate, a heating credit and a one-off emergency repair allowance — enough to see the winter through without moving.

  • Household: one senior
  • Program: senior housing support
  • Award: $2,800 USD
  • Rebates filed for two years
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Ana R. · received 2026

Family & child allocation

$9,360

a year of allocation payments for a mother raising three children

Ana works mornings at a bakery and raises three children on her own. Rent took most of her pay and groceries were the last thing left standing. Her household qualified for a monthly child allocation; the payments arrived every month for a year, covered childcare for the youngest and cleared the arrears that had followed the family since the move.

  • Household: mother and three children
  • Program: family & child allocation
  • Award: $9,360 USD over a year
  • Paid monthly
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Priya N. · received 2026

Teachers & classrooms

$3,250

recovered for a first-grade teacher and the twenty-six children in her class

Priya's classroom runs on donated cardboard and the last half-box of pencils from September. Her adviser filed the classroom expense reimbursement the school never had time to process, added the district's hard-to-staff supply allowance, and set up a recurring claim so the paperwork is done once a year instead of never.

  • Household: teacher and two children
  • Program: educator relief
  • Award: $3,250 USD
  • Recurring claim set up
A smiling teenage student in her school uniform holding textbooks and a white envelope at her front door with her younger brother
Jasmine L. · received 2026

Students & school costs

$6,400

awarded to a student so one school year was never interrupted

When Jasmine's mother lost her hours, the household had to choose between a bus pass, a lab fee and an exam registration. Their adviser found a student support allocation, a school-cost grant and a sibling childcare subsidy, and filed all three in the same week. Jasmine sat every paper, kept her place on the honour roll and started the next year with her books already paid for.

  • Household: mother and three students
  • Program: student & school-cost support
  • Award: $6,400 USD
  • Three claims filed in one week
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Disabled people & carers

Assistance for disabled people, at home and in the household

Living with a disability costs more than it should — the ramp, the wider doorway, the shower you can actually use, the equipment nobody budgets for. We help disabled people, their families and the carers who support them find and claim the housing, income and accessibility awards they qualify for, and we appeal if a claim is refused.

  • Home modification and accessibility grants
  • Ramps, stairlifts and bathroom safety work
  • Disability benefit and pension reviews
  • Mobility and equipment cost offsets
  • Support for unpaid family carers
  • Appeals when a claim is declined
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What relief looks like

Money back on the table, where it belongs

Awarded funds pay the rent, fill the fridge and keep families together — paid by check or cash transfer straight to the household.

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Families eating together again

Allocation payments cover groceries, school costs and utilities.

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Paid by check or cash

Choose the payment method that suits your household on the form.

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Seniors staying in their homes

Housing support and refunds claimed properly, start to finish.

Who we serve

Four assistance tracks, one adviser

Each track has its own rules, deadlines and paperwork. We handle the differences so you only tell your story once.

Senior Housing Support

Seniors 62+

Help with rent, property tax relief, heating costs and accessibility modifications so older adults can stay in the home they know.

Typical support $450 – $2,800 per year

Program details
Retiree Income Top-Up

Retired on a fixed income

A review of pension, annuity and benefit statements to recover refundable credits and allowances that are commonly left unclaimed.

Average recovered refund $1,160

Program details
Educator Relief Grant

Teachers & school staff

Classroom expense reimbursement, housing deposit help and student-loan relief guidance for current and retired teachers.

Up to $3,500 in combined relief

Program details
Family & Child Allocation

Families with children

Child allocation payments, childcare subsidies and rent stabilisation help for households raising children.

Typical support $220 – $780 per month

Program details

How it works

Three steps, no guesswork

1. Free eligibility review

Answer a short set of questions about your household, income and housing situation. No documents needed to start.

2. Matched to a case adviser

A dedicated adviser identifies every program you qualify for and prepares your document checklist.

3. Filed and tracked

We submit the paperwork, follow up with the awarding office and keep you updated until a decision arrives.

“They found a property tax rebate and a heating grant my late husband and I never claimed. I stayed in my house.”
Marian D. · Retired, 74
“I spent four years buying supplies out of pocket. My adviser filed two years of reimbursements in one afternoon.”
Kelvin O. · 5th grade teacher
“With three children and rent arrears we were weeks from eviction. The allocation payment arrived in time.”
The Alvarez family · Household of five

Submitting an application does not guarantee approval or funding

All awards are decided by the responsible agency or awarding office. Allocation Grant Refund is an independent advisory service, is not a government agency, and never charges a fee or promises an outcome.

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The eligibility check takes about four minutes and there is never a charge for a review.

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