So my sister-in-law was born and raised in the LDS church. She has always been a TBM to the fullest extent, until two days ago. She had reached out to her bishop to ask for assistance with a bill (medical bill to be exact). They had also been recently helping her with her rent because she's a single mother and was working when COVID struck her house. Put her out of work for 2 weeks and she had no vacation or PTO to take as she had already used it for her two children. She has rent covered by herself, it's just this one medical bill and she had been previously told that they would rather help with bills including medical bills than pay for rent or help with food.

She doesn't hear from him for 24 hours and then gets a phone call where he states that due to low tithing and donations in their ward, they were unable to help anymore and couldn't help with the medical bill. (Certain medical groups in Utah are more aggressive with collections than others and they didn't want to set up payment arrangements. Remember this is from her.) She said that he said that the money they get to help the ward is from those areas, but mostly tithing. You would think a multi-million dollar corporation would help out its wards that were struggling. Which makes her and now myself wonder if he was lying to her.

So my question to all of you is, does the money they use to help needy families (excluding food) like rent and bills, come from tithing and ward donations?