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Following a power outage, food purchased with SNAP benefits can be replaced for free. The benefit is not new, but the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reminds food assistance recipients that food that spoils during a power outage can be replaced.
Medina Square Farmers Market ready to return Updated 5:30 AM; Today 5:30 AM Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio – Medina Square Farmers Market is set to open Saturday, May 15. The market - which will run through Saturday, Oct. 16 - will be open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekly. The market will showcase more than 45 vendors selling locally grown or produced products from within a 35-mile radius of Medina. Market manager Angela Mansier said in a release product offerings will be expanded, after hearing customer feedback. “We’re happy to have broadened the market to include several new bakeries with r...
Fewer people will get food, Medicaid, unemployment under Ohio bill requiring more fraud checks, advocates say Laura Hancock, cleveland.com COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio Senate bill that seeks to catch fraud among people applying for and receiving social services will result in increased work for county case workers, as well as fewer low-income people obtaining food aid, Medicaid and unemployment benefits, advocates for the poor said Thursday. Popular Searches Senate Bill 17 requires case workers to cross-check applicants and enrollees against state data such as new hire records, ...
Needy students learning at home to get benefits from state Jeremy P. Kelley © Jeremy P. Kelley Kettering City Schools employees give out school lunch packages to families in a drive-up service at Fairmont High School on March 24, 2020. JEREMY P. KELLEY / STAFF Ohio children who normally get free or reduced-price lunches at school, but have been learning remotely, will soon receive additional food benefits, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer plan (P-EBT) will retroactively pay $5.86 per qualified child, per s...
Ohio students who normally receive free or reduced-price lunch will continue receiving P-EBT payments through the end of the school year