I am in a financial bind because my brother died suddenly and I fell behind on a couple bills because I had to take on spoke of his responsibilities and had to be paying my mother's rent as well as mine. I needed $585 or get my rent current. I sent in all the requested documents. Because I was dendinf money to my mom overseas I sent the remittance receipts as proof. They were over $1000. Modest needs denied my application claiming that payments on the regular bill with which I requested Modest Needs' help were substantially past due before I incurred the "unusual expense" I mentioned in my application, and / or that the cost of the unusual bill is substantially less than the regular bill with which you've requested our assistance and should not have resulted in an inabiity to remit payment for this regular bill. They also said that they cannot consider my application for assistance at this time because the extenuating circumstance (payment of car registration) does not justify the much larger expense i need help with. I don't know where that information about car registration came from as it was not mentioned in my application. I am so confused because I don't even understand the basis on which I was denied.