MOSES LAKE — The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) mobile public assistance office will be in Soap Lake and Ephrata later this month for anyone in those communities who might need to apply for public assistance.
According to Darlene Espinoza, a DSHS program specialist, the mobile unit is fully equipped to assist with applications for basic food assistance (such as SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and TANF, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), cash assistance, medical assistance, and help poor seniors pay Medicare Part B premiums.
“Basically, it’s a complete office, just on wheels,” Espinoza said.
The mobile office will be in Soap Lake from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, out in front of the Food Bank at 325 E. Main St.
It will also be in Ephrata from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, in front of the Columbia Basin Hospital.
Espinoza said DSHS has two mobile trucks — one for the east side, and one for the west side, both funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — that travel to communities which do not have a DSHS office of their own or that have been hit by a natural disaster.
DSHS has no set schedule for its mobile offices, though it tries to go to communities, like Quincy or Mattawa, where the need is high, Espinoza said.
Charles H. Featherstone can be reached via email at countygvt@columbiabasinherald.com
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