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The Military Assistance Trust Fund — Emergency Grants, and 39 Days of Child Care

One fund doing two jobs. It makes emergency grants to service members and families in financial hardship arising directly from state or federal military duty, and separately reimburses dependent care for up to 39 calendar days a year for a member in a duty status. The second half is the one almost nobody claims.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

One fund doing two jobs. It makes emergency grants to service members and families in financial hardship arising directly from state or federal military duty, and separately reimburses dependent care for up to 39 calendar days a year for a member in a duty status. The second half is the one almost nobody claims.

What it's worth: Emergency grants for hardship arising directly from military duty; dependent care reimbursed for up to 39 calendar days a year

  • The department states both arms under Wyo. Stat. 19-7-402(c).
  • The emergency grant reaches service members and their families where the hardship relates directly to state or federal military duty.
  • The dependent care reimbursement is stated for Guard members serving in a military duty status, capped at 39 calendar days annually.
  • The process runs through the unit first, then an online application. It is not a walk-up state portal.

Who is entitled to it

  • You are a serving member of the state National Guard.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Start with your unit. The department states the request is initiated through the unit and then applied for online — a member who goes straight to the online form without the unit step usually stalls.
  2. 2Be precise about the link to duty. The emergency grant is written around hardship relating DIRECTLY to state or federal military duty, so the application has to draw that line, not merely describe a hardship.
  3. 3Claim the dependent care reimbursement separately and deliberately. It is a different arm of the same fund, it does not arrive because you asked for an emergency grant, and 39 calendar days a year is a real number.
  4. 4Count duty days as you go rather than at the end of the year. The dependent care cap is annual, and a member reconstructing a year of drill weekends from memory usually under-claims.
  5. 5Bring the invoices. A reimbursement scheme runs on what the care actually cost, not on a daily rate you estimate.
  6. 6Ask what happens if the annual cap is reached and a mobilisation follows. The department does not publish that, and a family planning around a deployment needs it answered in advance.
Form
Initiated through your unit, then completed as an online application
File with
The state military department
Periodic
Re-confirmed from time to time.
Worth knowingDependent care reimbursement for duty days is the quiet find here. A single parent in the Guard who has been paying for a sitter every drill weekend out of pocket has probably been entitled to that money the whole time.
CorrectionThis is not a general veterans hardship fund. Both arms are written around military duty and around serving members and their families, so a veteran separated years ago is looking at the wrong door.
Known gapThe department publishes no dollar ceiling for the emergency grant, no daily rate for dependent care, and no income test. All three would come from the unit or the department before planning around the fund.

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