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Treasurer details Taxpayer Assistance Program: 150 approved, eligibility expanded to age 67 and administration moved in-house
Summary
Cuyahoga County Treasurer reported 615 inquiries and 150 approvals in year one of the pilot taxpayer assistance program, roughly $1 million distributed; the program will expand eligibility from 70 to 67, allow in-person applications, bring administration in-house, and change payment processing to ledger adjustments to speed assistance.
Cuyahoga County Treasurer Brad Grama told the Committee of the Whole on Nov. 25 that the county—s two-year Taxpayer Assistance Program approved about 150 residents in its first year and has distributed roughly $1 million in direct assistance.
The pilot, funded through the county—s DTAC mechanism, was budgeted at $5 million across two years with $2 million earmarked for direct assistance and $500,000 for housing counseling and program administration. Grama said the county received 615 total applications or inquiries in year one and that CHN Housing Partners administered the program initially under contract; the county has since ended CHN—s administrative role effective Oct. 31 and will bring program administration in-house.
Grama said approved distributions and district-level allocations varied: initial district pools ranged from $46,000 (District 1) to $368,000 (District 7), approved individual distributions ranged from about $2,878 to…
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