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Financial Assistance for Cancer Patients

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Cancer Lifeline staff works to help cancer patients stay in treatment by providing financial resources to help meet basic needs or access medical care, including medications, health insurance, co-pays or transportation to treatment.

Cancer Lifeline Patient Financial Assistance Fund 

The Cancer Lifeline Patient Financial Assistance Fund provides financial assistance to low-income patients in western Washington State who are actively being treated for cancer, or within three (3) months of active treatment. Funds granted can be used for living expenses to meet basic needs or unreimbursed medical expenses. To be eligible to receive funding, in addition to being in treatment, recipients must have household incomes at or below 225% of the federal poverty level (see table below) and be treated in one of sixteen western Washington counties.

Household income must be lower than:

Family Size Monthly Household Income Annual Household Income
1 $2,734 $32,805
2 $3,698 $44,370
3 $4,661 $55,935
4 $5,626 $67,500
5 $6,589 $79,065
6 $7,553 $90,630
7 $8,516 $102,195
8 $9,480 $113,760

Applications are submitted by social workers assigned to or requested by patients (or another healthcare representative if no social worker is available) on a regular basis, at times communicated to social workers by Cancer Lifeline.

Please contact the facility where you are receiving your cancer treatment about assigning you a social worker or someone who can help you apply for this assistance.

If you have any additional questions please call and leave a voicemail on our financial assistance line at (206) 832-1282 or email [email protected]