News briefs: Heating assistance available through HEAP - Lancaster Eagle Gazette

The Ohio Development of Development and Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency wants to fto Ohioans cognize that assistance is disposable to assistance with their heating bills this winter. The Home Energy Assistance Winter Crisis Program started Nov. 1 and helps income-eligible Ohioans wage their heating bills and tin assistance with substance vessel placement, substance vessel testing, and furnace repair. The programme volition beryllium unfastened until March 31.

The Winter Crisis Program assists low-income households that person been disconnected (or person a pending disconnection announcement for state and/or electric), request to found caller service, request to wage to transportation service, person a PIPP default, person 25% (or less) of bulk substance oregon wood proviso remaining, to assistance enactment lukewarm this winter. This programme tin besides assistance with furnace repair.

When applying for the program, applicants indispensable supply the pursuing documentation.• Income verification for the past 30 days (document examples: wage stubs, kid enactment printout, existent twelvemonth Social Security grant letter, including disablement benefits, nationalist assistance, pension, etc)• If Self Employed, ledger showing past 12 months net and expenses, and astir precocious filed taxation forms and schedules, oregon astir caller IRS Account Transcript.• If Seasonally Employed, the past 12 months of paystubs are needed oregon seasonal employment signifier filled out.• Social Security cards oregon commencement certificates for each household members, and Social Security numbers for each members of household.• Most caller state and electrical bills, propane/fuel lipid invoice (even if assistance is not needed for some services).• If disabled, impervious of disability• If zero income, request to cognize however you person been maintaining your household.(Food stamps, Metropolitan Housing, monetary assistance from idiosyncratic extracurricular the household, etc)

Ohioans tin sojourn www.energyhelp.ohio.gov to commencement their exertion and upload the required documents. If exertion is completed online, delight telephone 740-777-9055 to docket a telephone appointment. If you bash not person entree to the net and/or cannot upload your documentation, Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency tin coordinate a clip for you to driblet disconnected your documentation oregon your documentation tin beryllium mailed, faxed, oregon emailed to the section agency. For a database of required documentation and/or to docket a telephone interview, delight telephone our automated assignment enactment @ 740-777-9055.

Eligible households tin person a outgo for their main heating root and/or their secondary heating root (electric). The programme tin besides assistance with substance vessel placement, substance vessel testing, and furnace repair. Ohioans indispensable person a gross income astatine oregon beneath 175% of the national poorness guidelines to suffice for assistance.

For much accusation astir the features of the Winter Crisis Program locally and what is needed to apply, interaction Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency astatine 740-653-4146. Additional accusation tin besides beryllium recovered astatine www.energyhelp.ohio.gov oregon by calling (800) 282-0880.

First Medical Occupational Health, Urgent Care temporarily relocate

LANCASTER – Fairfield Medical Center has temporarily its affiliated First Medical Occupational Health and First Medical Urgent Care offices.

First Medical Occupational Health tin present beryllium recovered wrong the erstwhile outpatient laboratory connected the archetypal level of Fairfield Medical Center’s main campus, 401 N. Ewing St., Lancaster. First Medical Urgent Care is present located astatine 131 N. Ewing St., Suite A, which is adjacent to the main campus.

Patients tin utilize infirmary and Pavilion parking to entree some locations.

First Medical Occupational Health and First Medical Urgent Care volition yet determination into a imperishable determination successful the 1100 artifact of Main Street sometime adjacent year. The intent for the determination is to spot some First Medical Occupational Health and First Medical Urgent Care successful a determination that is centrally located wrong the community. Both offices were antecedently located astatine 1199 River Valley Blvd. successful Lancaster, adjacent Target. That gathering has since been sold to an unaffiliated enactment and volition beryllium restructured into an inpatient rehabilitative facility.

To interaction First Medical Occupational Health, telephone 740-689-4404. The bureau is unfastened Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. To interaction First Medical Urgent Care, telephone 740-687-CARE (2273). Hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Lancaster Post Office unfastened connected Sundays successful December

LANCASTER — To assistance with the hustle of the holidays, the Lancaster Post Office, 204 S Broad Street, Lancaster, volition beryllium unfastened from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 and from 8 a.m. until noon Dec 18.

Customers tin besides find retail hours connected our website: https://tools.usps.com/find-location

The Postal Service mostly receives nary taxation dollars for operating expenses and relies connected the merchantability of postage, products, and services to money its operations.

Meetings

The Fairfield County Port Authority Board of Directors volition clasp a gathering astatine 10:30 a.m. Dec. 15 astatine the Fairfield County Workforce Center, 4465 Coonpath Rd NW, Carroll.