public assistance

In case you missed it yesterday, we now have a website and online application for low-income residents who need help with food, medical needs or daily expenses. This is an excellent example of becoming more accessible to the citizens of …

Speaking of Medicaid (see below post), we are excited to offer a new opportunity to our Medicaid recipients. Some of our recipients must meet “spend down” requirements. To learn more about that, check out this fact sheet: https://www.hcjfs.org/Buttons/Clients_Customers/Health_Services/PDF/HCJFS7963UnderstandingSpenddown.pdf As of …

Yesterday, I attended a press conference announcing an effort to enroll eligible Hamilton County residents in Medicaid. The Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati is leading the effort and we are helping with enrollment efforts. The “Covering Kids and Families” …

I recently received a newsletter from the Ohio Job and Family Services Directors Association that really drove home the point of how important this agency is to this community right now. The newsletter was full of depressing statistics: Ohio has …

Fifteen years ago this month, we were laying the groundwork for a major move from 628 Sycamore St. and other scattered locations to 222 E. Central Parkway. It was, by far, the largest move in the history of the Hamilton …

This story on today’s food assistance recipients echoes what we are seeing at our agency. They are increasingly someone you know. http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=cincinnati&sParam=31959665.story About a third of the food stamp recipients we see now have not been to our office before …