Call Community Action at 217-732-2159 for information on Energy Assistance. 
Applications DO have to be completed to apply for Township Assistance.  They are available from the link above, in the office when open, or you may call for one to be mailed.  As you will read on the Contact Information page, we cannot possibly be in the office at all times with only one person in each office, so PLEASE CALL FIRST.  Leave a message if necessary and someone WILL call you back.  I will return your call once.
You must live in Clintonia Township to receive help and it must be verifiable that you do.
Call to schedule an appointment at 217-935-2506.
An interview will be conducted with the applicant.  Additional verifications will be requested and ten days are given to return those verifications.  At that time, a determination of eligibility will be completed and a letter of that determination will be mailed to you.
General Assistance will be determined first, as required by law. If your income is above that program's standards, Emergency Assistance will be determined as long as funding allows for that program.
Thirty days are allowed for the application to be completed by the Supervisor but is normally completed much sooner.
email:  clintoniatownship@frontier.com

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