Request for proposal

Fairfield County Job and Family Services (FCJFS) is soliciting proposals for the following:

TANF Summer Youth Employment Services
Temporary Personnel Services
Substance Abuse Screening Services

Ohio Direction Card

Assistance with Food is provided through the Ohio Direction Card.

This card is similar to a credit card and holds food assistance allotment of benefits available for the assistance group each month. Eligibility is determined by an Eligibility Referral Specialist through a telephone or a face-to-face interview. Eligibility is determined by household income, resources, certain expenses and household composition. Depending on a family's household composition and financial circumstances, different amounts are available.

What is the Food Assistance Program and how are benefits issued?

The Food Assistance Program provides you with assistance in buying food through the use of an electronic benefit transfer card. Benefits are issued to you using the Ohio Direction Card. The card is very easy to use. You will use this card at stores that are authorized to accept it. The Ohio Direction Card allows you to purchase more and better food for better health. If your Ohio Direction Card is lost, stolen or fails to work, call 1-866-386-3071.

Your county department of job and family services (CDJFS) determines if a low income household is eligible to receive Food Assistance benefits through the Ohio Direction Card. These households are also called assistance groups. A household can be one person or more than one person. Most households are families, but a household can also be a group of people living together who are not of the same family.

A household:
  • Lives together, AND
  • Buys food together, AND
  • Prepares and eats meals together.
An adult child living with his/her parents is usually treated as part of the parents' household. To be a separate household, the adult child must be over age 22 even if the adult child is married and living with their own children or spouse. Also, the adult child must buy and prepare his/her food separately from his/her parents. People who are living in a group living arrangement may also be able to get Food Assistance benefits if they are:
  • Age 60 or older and living in housing paid for with federal funds.
  • Blind or disabled and living in a group living arrangement.
  • Living in an alcohol or drug treatment center.
  • Living in a center for battered women and their children.
  • Living in a homeless shelter.
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