Nutrition | Online Tools To Accelerate Food Claim

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services last week an online assessment tool for families in North Carolina to determine, without addressing the needs of social services for eligibility.

Sherry literature, social director of state affairs, said local authorities have a shorter route to anticipate the waiting time for family benefits should be. Since October, received more than 150 million nearly 687,000 families in financial services network.

"Our fundamental task of the Food and Nutrition Services Program is to assist our residents to feed their families," he said.

In July, the expansion of the national network of financial services firm conditions, the increased income limit from 130 to 200 percent of poverty. Therefore, social services across the state have until September an average of more than 61,000 applications in July.

The tool, called e-passports to enable users to assess the eligibility online, and take the local department of social services in the file information. The ePass really his office in the implementation of the DSS is not immune from the local population.

What Daiermuer Campo, director of the Davidson County DSS, the applicant must be better prepared for interviews.

"We can use this information in the interview process as part of their application," he said. "It's the end of May in the rational to visit us. Research faster, because if there are problems with their applications, we can discuss. "

Enjoy the new eligibility criteria, the case of Moore County expected to increase by approximately thirty percent of these services in the field. In October, the county was $ 350 million of food aid and nutrition, the best month so far this year in the last month, Moore, Rumsfeld said, some 1,100 applications for registration.

Www.ePASS.nc.gov user access to the site where you have an account with your initial application and verify your eligibility to create. With new technology, Moore said he wants Rumsfeld County residents for help.

"What a better understanding of the plan that Hill came to teaching methods, he said." A practice of the mountain. They want to know what will happen, which should provide an application form. I have this problem. I think this is positive. "

David Bodenheimer can be reached 249-3981, ext. 227 or david.bodenheimer @ 's - dispatch.com.

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