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This Program helps low income households pay the cost of drinking water and wastewater services. The program can assist households who have past due bills for drinking water and/or wastewater services.

Eligibility and benefits are based on:

• income,
• household size, and
• amount owed to drinking water and/or wastewater provider(s).

LIHWAP is a benefit based on the actual amount of drinking water and/or wastewater arrears, up to a maximum of $2,500 per drinking water or wastewater provider, or $5,000 if drinking water and wastewater services are combined

For more information about LIHWAP please call the NYS LIHWAP Call Center at 1-833-690-0208 or call the toll-free OTDA Hotline at 1-800-342-3009. You may also email LIHWAP at: [email protected]. or visit their website at https://otda.ny.gov/programs/water-assistance/

The New York State Homeowner Assistance Fund (NYS HAF) is a federally funded program dedicated to assisting homeowners who are at risk of default, foreclosure, or displacement as a result of a financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Apply if you’re a homeowner who is:

• Behind or in forbearance on their mortgage
• In default on a reverse mortgage
• Behind on property taxes, water, or sewage bills
• Behind on monthly maintenance charges
• Behind on their chattel loans, retail installment contracts, or other types of home purchase loans and/or lot rent

Call New York State Homeowner Assistance Fund for more information on this funding Monday through Saturday from 7 AM to 8 PM.

(1-844-776-9423) or visit their website at www.nyhomeownerfund.org

In 2020, the Federal Government finalized the “Transparency in Coverage” Rule, which requires health insurers and group health plans, including self-funded clients, to provide cost-sharing data to consumers. For self-funded plans, such as the Town of Otisco’s plan for its employees, this information is to be available via Machine-readable files for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. These files provide pricing data for covered items and services based on in-network negotiated payment rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts.

The machine-readable files are available free of charge. The user is not required to establish a user account, password, or other credentials and does not require the user to submit any personal identifying information such as a name, email address, or telephone number.

The Town of Otisco participates In the Onondaga County Municipal Employee Benefits Agreement (OCEBA), which is an arrangement among several municipal entities involved in self-insurance plans for their municipal employees.

Therefore, to access the Machine-readable files relative to the Town of Otisco’s self-funded plan, please go on the internet to the following link, and scroll down to the OCEBA Group Health Benefits file: transparency-in-coverage.uhc.com