COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The long, cold winter has been a drain on the household budgets of many Ohioans.

Nearly
134,000 have received $34 million in help with heating bills through
Ohio’s Home Energy Assistance Winter Crisis Program. Because of the
severity of the winter, the deadline to apply for help has been extended
to April 15.
The typical deadline is March 31.
David Goodman, director of the Ohio Development Services Agency, tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1iRcMdg ) that the extension allows
those Ohioans who didn’t think they would need the help to apply for it.
Regina
Clemons, the program’s director of emergency assistance, said the
agency is seeing lots of people who had never sought before. She said
the agency can usually stop disconnects by enrolling people in one or
more energy-assistance program.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
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reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The long, cold winter has been a drain on the household budgets of many Ohioans.

Nearly
134,000 have received $34 million in help with heating bills through
Ohio’s Home Energy Assistance Winter Crisis Program. Because of the
severity of the winter, the deadline to apply for help has been extended
to April 15.
The typical deadline is March 31.
David Goodman, director of the Ohio Development Services Agency, tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1iRcMdg ) that the extension allows
those Ohioans who didn’t think they would need the help to apply for it.
Regina
Clemons, the program’s director of emergency assistance, said the
agency is seeing lots of people who had never sought before. She said
the agency can usually stop disconnects by enrolling people in one or
more energy-assistance program.
___
Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.