Sometimes a local tzedakah vaad only issues a certificate for a certain amount of time; maybe she had one and it expired, and she could not get another.
daas,
if that was the case she should have shown the old certificate, if she took the time top go to the vaad in lakewood etc, she should have taken the time to go to the Rav in that city, these haskamas aren’t a free pass for everywhere but they do add to a city’s haskama