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If by increasing a family’s access
to medical visits and prescription coverage they don’t have to choose
between food and medicine...
If by helping a senior citizen
apply for utility assistance they can avoid having to choose between
food and heat...
If we at the Ohio Association of
Second Harvest Foodbanks can be the link between your agency and a new
tool that helps make those things possible...then we are ready to fill
that role.
Which is why the Ohio
Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks along with VISTA's located
across the state at the 12 regional America's Second Harvest
Foodbanks, are pleased to offer The Benefit Bank, a free internet
program that offers agencies the ability to facilitate applications
for state and federal aid programs providing income enhancement
opportunities for clients.
At each Foodbank
we know that the compassion and commitment you offer people in need
creates a unique opportunity for them to reach out to someone that
they trust to get the support they need but is often difficult and
demoralizing to apply for.
The problem of
hunger is larger than one solution, but we have seen our member
agencies translate caring into doing, encouragement into
achievement. In support of your commitment we offer you a new
tool that we believe can help close the gap between the
difficulty of asking and the dignity of self sufficiency.
Please take a moment to
look over The Benefit Bank information and see the kinds of
opportunities it has to offer our member agencies, and when you are
ready to host a TBB site we are ready to help make that happen.
The Benefit Bank:
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An Income Enhancement Program Providing easier access to: |
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Healthy
Start/ Healthy Families
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Title XX
Child Care Subsidy
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HEAP (Home
Energy Assistance Program)
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As well as State
and Federal Tax Credits: |
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Child and
Additional Child Tax Credits
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Child and
Dependant Care Credit
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Back State
and Federal Return
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TBB also runs a complete tax program: |
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For any
household making less than $45,000/yr.
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E-file
completed tax forms for Free
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With Direct
Deposit get your refund in days
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