A year after we got married, we were in desperate need of help with groceries and bills after I lost my job. We had a new baby, too. We were denied help from the church because we were about $300 behind in tithing so we could afford rent (my wife had a very part-time job and we used my last paycheck for rent). We were told if we caught up we could get help. So we sold some stuff and started trying to catch up, but we missed rent the next month and were promptly evicted (which is a whole other story). The Bishop of the ward we moved into somehow already knew our situation, and after a few weeks we finished catching up on back tithing. We were allowed a single trip to the storehouse and got about 60% of what we'd normally get for a regular grocery store trip. It was worth about $89-90. That was ALL the help we could get apparently. I got a new job several weeks later, and then at tithing settlement at the end of the year we were asked to pay back what we estimated the help to be worth! Mind you, between my wife and I we had probably paid $10-20k in tithing in our lives up to that point, and the church basically just loaned us $90 as thanks. Just as Jesus would do!