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Provides free and confidential prescreening by phone or at various agencies regarding eligibility for SNAP. Assists member programs with providing referrals to SNAP and other government entitlement programs.

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Benefits Screening
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Certificates/Forms Assistance
* Provides legal services and counseling for civil matters to low-income people. Legal education and information. Health care advocacy. Elder Law advocacy. SSI disability advocacy. Domestic violence/victims of a crime. Medicare and Medicaid legal problems and denials. Fair housing enforcement/ housing discrimination and education. Public benefits such as SNAP. * Provides legal information to people who are homeless, at risk of losing their housing, or have a public benefits termination or denial; this includes: Evictions. Foreclosures. * Provides information for referrals for civil legal needs that are not listed. Resources can oftentimes link people with a source of assistance.

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Durable Power of Attorney for Asset Management
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Discrimination Assistance
Eviction Prevention Assistance
Elder Law
Benefits and Services Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
General Legal Aid
Legal Counseling
Health Law
Mortgage Delinquency and Default Counseling
Will Preparation Assistance
Provides one-on-one screening and application assistance to connect individuals to SNAP benefits.

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Benefits and Services Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Offers a community based Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention program focused on healthy lifestyles. This program is offered for free in English and Spanish for all ages. ESNY utilizes a variety of hands-on educational strategies to bring about wellness behavioral changes within the community. All of our programs are interactive, focusing on creating healthy eating and physical activity habits. We also work with agencies to create healthy environments that focus on policy and systems change. Our educators provide programs throughout the community in food pantries, schools partner agencies, farmer's markets, laundromats, corner stores, libraries work sites, etc. Our 4 main areas of focus are "increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, increase physical activity, decrease consumption of sugary beverages, and learn how to budget, plan and save. We welcome agencies to contact us for our comprehensive programs that impact their staff and participants.

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Nutrition Education
Food Stamps / SNAP
Volunteer Opportunities
Accept Food Stamp applications, determine eligibility for the Food Stamp program and allotments, and issue Food Stamp EBT cards. This EBT card enables low-income and indigent households to purchase nutritious foods. Amount of food stamps issued varies with family size and income.
* Assistance with fair hearings for those who have been denied benefits.
  • A Fair Hearing is a chance for benefits applicants to tell an Administrative Law Judge (from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Office of Administrative Hearings) why they think a decision about their case made by a local social services agency is wrong.

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Benefits and Services Assistance
TANF
Food Stamps/SNAP Appeals/Complaints
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Some persons who own homes and cars may still meet food stamp eligibility criteria. Call for information and telephone prescreening or to set up appointment. Food stamp eligibility pre-screening referral to nutrition assistance programs. Senior citizens may be eligible for Farmers Market coupons.

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Discount/Rebate Programs
Summer Food Service Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
SNAP, formerly food stamps, issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used like cash for authorized retail food stores. Eligibility based on household size, income, and other factors.

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Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Summer Food Service Programs
Benefits Screening
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Provides free and confidential prescreening by phone or at various agencies regarding eligibility for SNAP. Assists member programs with providing referrals to SNAP and other government entitlement programs.

Jefferson County SNAP Outreach Coordinator
Molly Johnson, 315-437-1899 x279

Lewis County SNAP Outreach Coordinator
Kristine Kriwox, 315-437-1899 x251

Onondaga County SNAP Outreach Coordinator
Peter Duffy-Hartnett, 315-437-1899 x278

Oswego County SNAP Outreach Coordinator
Food Bank of Central New York
Heidi Rauch-Webb, 315-437-1899 x273


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Certificates/Forms Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Benefits Screening
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Offers individuals assistance to apply for HEAP benefits.

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Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Gas Service Payment Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Electric Service Payment Assistance
Heating Fuel Payment Assistance
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Provides Congregate lunches, nutrition education and counseling, and home-delivered meals for homebound elderly, nutrition education and counseling.

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Home Delivered Meals
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Access for residents outside the City of Ithaca to this Department of Social Services (DSS) units: Medicaid SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly Food Stamps) emergency assistance day care services Trumansburg: Wednesdays, 1-4:30pm, Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm Street, Trumansburg.Walk-ins welcome.

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Child Care Expense Assistance
Medicaid
Food Stamps/SNAP
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Provides the opportunity for a state resident to dispute a decision made about their benefit-related case by the local social services department.

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Food Stamps/SNAP Appeals/Complaints
WIC Appeals/Complaints
Provides food security programs, emergency housing services and prescription assistance for individuals and families in need.

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Prescription Expense Assistance
Benefits Screening
Community Disaster Service Centers/Hotlines
Food Stamps/SNAP Applications
Food Cooperatives
Summer Food Service Programs
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Provides SNAP benefits monthly through EBT cards that can be used at grocery and other retail stores that have been authorized by the SNAP division.
Promotes participation in federal nutrition programs, especially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Summer Food Service Program, through outreach and training. Program staff will prescreen individuals for potential SNAP and assist with the application process. Staff provides professional training sessions for human service workers on food assistance programs and will assist interested organizations in serving/sponsoring a summer food service site.
Provides prescreening, assistance filling out applications, and assistance obtaining necessary documentation for food stamp benefits.

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Food Stamps / SNAP
Benefits Screening
General Benefits Assistance
Works to reduce hunger and malnutrition for low income households. SNAP benefits can be used to purchase food or seeds and plants which produce food for the household to consume.