Medicaid & SNAP abruptly changing

CADIZ—Harrison County’s Department of Job and Family Services want to make the public aware of two changes to assistance programs enacted to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes will be coming in March and April of this year. States were previously not permitted to disenroll recipients from Medicaid coverage. Beginning with cases that are due for renewal in April, County Departments of Job and Family Services are required to review and close cases for those who do not comply with renewal requirements and those who are over income for eligibility for Medicaid. Individuals who receive notification that their benefits are being terminated will have the right to request a state hearing. Individuals who ultimately have their benefits terminated can shop for health insurance at www.healthcare.gov . This Medicaid review process will continue for the next 12 months.

The second change is to SNAP (Food Assistance). Previously, every household that received SNAP benefits also got a supplement at the end of every month. This benefit was in addition to their normal allotment. These

Look At The Past

Blackburn’s Back Room Boys, Cadiz

By Susan Adams

The HC Sesquicentennial book talks about a Dr. Richard Lee Mason, who passed through this area in 1819, going from Maryland to Illinois, and lists a passage from the journal he kept on his trip. October 19, 1819: “Left Sears (area near old Kanoski Tractor Sales on Route 22 W) at 6 a.m. Morning fair and cold. Roads extremely rough. Country fertile but hilly. Log cabins, ugly women, and tall timber”. The writer of the 1963 book said: “If the good doctor could return now, we would be happy to show him our wooded green hills, our beautiful lakes, and our lovely women.”

Top row: Laban Blackburn, George Kibble, William Henderson, chairman; Phillip Ross, J. Arthur Mattern, Jack A. Johnson. Second row: Raymond Jones, Harold Barricklow, Ellsworth West, John E. Ford, Robert Kidder, Norman E. Paolucci. Third row: Leo D. Steible, Robert Adams, George M. Kelly, John H. Dickerson, Ed Foster, Leonard T. Dowdle. Fourth row: Ralph D. Dunlap, Marshall Smith, Charles H. Brooks, Newell Trotter, James C. Kenny, C.A. West Jr. Fifth row: Alfred Reppart, Charles Voshall, Earl C. Nelson, Clyde Cope, Elmer Bargar, Ronzel Wease. Sixth row: Nemo Mattern. Not pictured: Robert Coulson, William Harmon, Bruce Jones, Carl Lisle, Richard Jones, Jasper Thompson, and Michael Cope.

Other “Brothers of the Brush” groups: Scio Razor Savers, Bowerston Brothers of the Brush, Hedge-Hogs, Bush Leaguers-Jewett, The Razor-less BrothersCadiz, Fairview FellowsJewett, Two Pine Bar Stool Cowboys, The Courthouse Riots, Barber Shop BrushesCadiz, Henpecked HairiesCadiz, Lions of the BrushHopedale, Hopedale’s Hairy Hustlers, Moonshiners, Court House Cats, Cardinalians-Cadiz and Marko’s Ranch. Picture and info from “Harrison County Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration 1813-1963”. The “Year of Celebration of 150 Years of Harrison County.” benefits will be issued in January and February 2023 but will not continue in March. There are no state hearing rights for the termination of these benefits because the federal government has ended the supplements.

Beginning in March 2023, households will continue to receive their “normal” allotment of SNAP benefits between the first and the twentieth day of each month. Individuals who receive SNAP benefits can call 844-6406446 with any questions about the end of the supplemental benefits.