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If you have a question about your benefits, you can check our Interactive Voice Response system any time. 

Members of HCJFS’ Workforce Development team received an award today for an innovative partnership to help food assistance recipients find work. County Administrator Jeff Aluotto presented the “Team Impact” award as part of Hamilton County’s 2018 Circle of Excellence. The team was also honored Wednesday at the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners meeting.

May is Public Assistance Fraud Awareness Month in Ohio, and HCJFS is spreading the word that “Fraud Costs All of Us.” Residents of Hamilton County can report suspected public assistance fraud by calling HCJFS at 513-946-2217 or going to www.hcjfs.org/fraud or www.jfs.ohio.gov/fraud.

For more than 80 years, Social Security has transformed to meet the changing needs of its customers.

Misuse of benefits is fraud and it affects all of us who support or receive assistance.

The state of Ohio has deployed Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology to help consumers access information regarding their Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Ohio Works First (OWF) benefits. Hamilton County Job and Family Services is one of four …

The Ohio Worker Benefits Portal will be down for maintenance from 6 p.m. March 21 until 6 a.m. March 26 for maintenance. Hamilton County Job and Family Services will be unable to access cases during business hours on March 22 and March 23. Consumers will be unable to access Medicaid information or cases throughout the entire shutdown.

Our Contact Us page has links to send messages directly to the department or service you need to reach.

Food and cash assistance recipients in Hamilton County will soon sign their recertification papers with an audio signature, a process that will reduce the number of cases where people lose benefits because of unreturned paperwork.

The Ohio Worker Benefits Portal will be down on Tuesday, Feb. 20, for maintenance. Consumers will be unable to access Medicaid information or cases on that day. As part of these maintenance efforts to prepare the system to integrate information …