Author: Your Crisis Guide

  • State Assistance Programs

    The state safety-net programs (food, cash, child care, transportation) that a family can tap when a parent stops working to be at the hospital, and exactly where to apply in New Jersey and New York.

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  • Medicaid

    How a child in cancer treatment gets Medicaid or CHIP in New Jersey and New York, even alongside a parent’s employer plan, and how to use it for rides, home care, and appeals.

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  • Social Security Benefits

    When a child is diagnosed with leukemia, the Social Security program that can actually help is SSI, not SSDI, and this page walks you through applying for it fast and keeping it.

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  • Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FMLI)

    If you live in a state with paid family leave, you can be paid while you are at the hospital with your child; this page explains how New Jersey, New York, and the other paid-leave states work in 2026 and how to file.

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  • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

    The Family and Medical Leave Act lets you keep your job and your health insurance while you are at the hospital with your child; here is how to use it, what your employer must do, and where to get paid while you are out.

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  • Returning to Work

    How to go back to work while your child is still in treatment: phased schedules, re-certifying intermittent FMLA for clinic days, and what to do if the job is gone.

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  • Workplace Accommodations

    What you can actually ask your employer for as the parent of a child in treatment, which laws back you up in New Jersey, New York and New York City, and how to put the request in writing.

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  • Communicating with Your Employer

    How to tell your employer what is happening, what HR is entitled to know and what it is not, scripts for the hard conversations, and what to do if you are punished for taking leave.

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  • Treatment Cost Overview

    What treating a child’s leukemia actually costs, where the money really goes, and what to start tracking on day one so insurance, taxes, and assistance programs pay you back.

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  • Financial Assistance Programs

    Programs that will actually pay a bill, cut a hospital charge, cover a drug, or reimburse your gas while your child is in leukemia treatment, and how to ask for each one.

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