Home Energy Assistance Program begins for winter - Canton Repository

CANTON − The Ohio Development Services Agency and Stark County Community Action Agency (SCCAA) - HomeEnergy Assistance - 2023 Winter Crisis Program begins Tuesday Nov. 1.

The programme helps income-eligible Stark Countians wage their heating bills and tin assistance with substance vessel placement, substance vessel testing, and furnace repair.

The SCCAA HEAP Winter Crisis Program provides inferior assistance to the pursuing households:• Those that are threatened with disconnection• Those that person been disconnected• Those who are transferring services oregon establishing caller services• Those who person PIPP+ Default oregon necessitate the archetypal PIPP+• Those that are astatine oregon beneath 25% bulk substance (fuel oil, propane, wood, etc.)

Households indispensable person a gross income astatine oregon beneath 175% of the national poorness guidelines to suffice for assistance. For a household of four, the yearly income indispensable beryllium astatine oregon beneath $48,562.50.

In bid to use for assistance, households whitethorn docket appointments by calling the SCCAA HEAP 24-hour assignment enactment astatine 330-617-1055 oregon online astatine https://app.capappointments.com/. This season, assistance volition beryllium provided astatine outreach sites successful Alliance (New Beginnings, Feed My Sheep Ministries) and successful Massillon (Massillon Salvation Army). When calling the 24-hour assignment line, you volition person the enactment to take which tract you would similar to beryllium assisted at. In summation to mostly face-to-face appointments, determination inactive volition beryllium a constricted fig of “phone” appointments.

When scheduling appointments, delight supply a valid telephone number. If the telephone fig provided becomes invalid, and/or if a telephone fig was not provided, households indispensable interaction the assignment enactment instantly astatine 330-617-1055 to update their information.

After scheduling an appointment, households should prime up, complete, and instrumentality a “Winter Crisis Packet” at/to the SCCAA HEAP Webster Square drop-box determination (1370 Market Ave. N) anterior to their existent appointment. The packets incorporate each documentation (including signature pages) required for Winter Crisis support and volition assistance expedite exertion completion during the assignment process.

Households tin besides statesman their exertion online by visiting www.development.ohio.gov, however, the exertion started online volition inactive request to beryllium completed done scheduling and participating successful a face-to-face oregon telephone interview.

For much accusation astir the features of the Winter Crisis Program and what is needed to apply, contactSCCAA HEAP astatine 330-454-1850.