It's Monday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey personality, Rachel Cruz.

All right, Alvin is with us. Alvin is in Pennsylvania.

Hi, Alvin. Welcome to the Dave Ramsey Show.

Hey, Dave and Rachel.

I'm honored to talk to you guys.

You too, sir.

What's up?

Well, I have a question on helping a friend or a family that we've been helping

financially.

And in the past year, the husband has passed away. and so in the last couple of years we've

helped this family from a very very poor situation and they were they were making some

progress financially and we had them on somewhat of a budget and things good but in the past year

the dad passed away.

Now we're having some troubles figuring out how much to help or where to help,

since the growing children seem to be taken advantage of some of the handouts, like the cars leave that not not theirs and and we're trying to figure out

how to how to how to where the boundary should be in as far as helping what children are in the

home of the of the of the house you're helping because you said there's some grown kids are there

yeah how many have moved back in yeah? Yeah. They have moved back in.

Yeah, a couple of them have moved back in, and one of them was his girlfriend and his kids.

And there's too many people in the house, but since the church and, you know, people that care about the family are paying for the rent and the food and the private schooling for the

children and things,

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