<prompt> Human: Hi everyone,My mom was given 2-6 months to live after her fight with breast cancer took a very bad turn. Shes closing up her business which provided health insurance and paid her 1000 a week.Shell have no insurance or income in a week or two. Without saying too much shes under the age of retirement, has less than 2000 in her bank account, and is single in NJ. What options does she have for government assistance? EDIT: Im shocked at how quickly this blew up with information and Im so thankful.-Will definitely be reaching out to hospice social worker about options.-Unfortunately, all of her life insurance is term with no cash value.-Her business and assets are essentially worthless since they either make no money or she owes more on them then theyre worthEDIT 2: This really supplied so much more information than I could have imagined and again just want to say thank you. Theres simply too many posts and comments and questions to respond to, but I am reading them all.Assistant: Does your mom have ANY life insurance at all? Any term-life insurance from before she became ill? Do YOU have a spare 2000 for a cremation? As a guy who has been through similar to this very recently like 1 week ago tomorrow - Im sorry.Medicaid will also want to be paid back from the estate, if there is an estate. Like if theres a house andor a vehicle to sell - those assets will be claimed. This goes in a different direction than your question, OP, but know that YOU and your siblings are NOT responsible for any of her billsdebt. Human: My mom has a ton of life insurance, over a million. Can she borrow from that?I know at least one policy is term.Her current debt to a bank is greater than the value of her assets.Hope those answers help.And Im sorry for what youre going through as well.  <response>: You should be engaging the life insurance company on this. Depending on the policy that was purchased, this is precisely what Life Insurance is used for these days.Some companies approach this situation differently, but from the limited info, it sounds like they are your best bet to help here. 