The Oregon Health Authority is launching a new rental assistance program through its Medicaid plan that serves low-income Oregonians when medical crises impact their ability to pay rent. Farmworkers ...

Oregon is the first in the nation to roll out rental assistance as a statewide Medicaid benefit for eligible OHP members, according to the Oregon Health Authority. People would need to have a ...

Dr. Sejal Hathi visited an affordable housing project for farmworkers in March, 2024, in Lebanon as part of her statewide "listening tour." ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- OnPoint Community Credit Union has donated $10,000 to the Central Oregon Guardian Assistance Program's Enhancement Fund. The Central Oregon Guardian Assistance Program was ...

Oregon Medicaid advisers, alarmed by the turbulent rollout of a new rent assistance benefit, pressed state health officials this week for answers over delays they acknowledged have left thousands of ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Central Oregon Guardian Assistance Program was established as a nonprofit organization in August of 2023 in Bend. COGAP provides pro bono and low-cost guardianship services to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon launched a new program on Friday that connects eligible Oregon Health Plan members with rent assistance and other housing benefits — aiming to help Oregonians with ...

Calli Ross’s son Tennyson was assigned a number this summer. It’s 136. So was Paige Hall’s son James. He’s 156. And Shasta Kearns Moore’s son Malachi is 1,151. The numbers, which top out at 1,349, ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history at 38 days as of Friday, Nov. 7, has delayed a program that helps low-income residents across Oregon heat their homes. The federal ...

2 local nonprofits process thousands of applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program The ongoing federal government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history at 40 days as of Sunday, Nov ...

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon distributed a massive amount of emergency federal funding to aid renters and landlords during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis, but a new audit from the ...