A fund of Everyone Gets Home.org

ForgottenFamily

Fiancés are the forgotten family of our fallen first responders and military members.

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The need

Benefits follow a
marriage certificate.
Grief doesn't.

When a first responder or service member is killed in the line of duty, the survivor pension, the line-of-duty benefit and the life insurance payout all go to a legal next of kin. A fiancé isn't one. Neither is the folded flag.

Quite often they are left to carry on without the security of life insurance or family support systems — sharing every part of the loss, and none of the standing that comes with it. The wedding was planned. The paperwork simply never caught up.

Close-up of two people holding hands, an engagement ring visible.
Engaged — but not on paper

Where your gift goes

Four things that
can't wait

Your gift goes directly to the practical costs that land on a fiancé in the weeks and months after a line-of-duty death — the ones no policy is going to cover for them.

Food

Groceries through the stretch when nothing else in life is working yet.

Housing

Rent and mortgage help, so a home isn't lost on top of a partner.

Final Expenses

Funeral, burial and estate costs that fall outside any survivor benefit.

Education

Tuition and training, so the future they planned together isn't over too.

Everyone gets home.
When they don't, someone is left behind.

Who we are

A fund with
a firehouse
behind it

Fallen Fiancé is a giving program of HFT Fire & Rescue Tech. & Equip., LLC, administered through Everyone Gets Home.org — a fire service organization built on a simple promise about the end of every shift.

When that promise can't be kept, the people it breaks hardest are often the ones with no legal claim to any of the help that follows. This fund exists for them.

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