Welcome to the web pages of Moraine Township, serving residents in the southeast corner of Lake County, Illinois.
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Use the drop down menu from the PayPal donation page to select how your donation is used: Food Pantry, Emergency Food Assistance, or Other Resident Emergency Assistance.
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IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO NEEDS HELP: please have them contact us: 847-432-3240 / info@morainetownship.org / Morainetownship.org.
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE / GENERAL ASSISTANCE: Click here for English application and click here for Spanish application.
Emergency Assistance
Our Emergency Assistance program provides Moraine Township residents with assistance in alleviating a life-threatening circumstance or job-related expense. Residents experiencing a hardship due to a current emergency such as loss of income, out of pocket medical expenses, reduction in hours, among others are encouraged to apply.
LINK TO APPLICATION
General Assistance
Our General Assistance program provides Moraine Township residents assistance with
$400 towards monthly basic living expenses such as rent, utilities, & food.
You may be eligible for General Assistance if you are unemployed, have no income,
actively seeking employment and don’t qualify for any other government assistance
program or you are currently pending a decision on a social security disability claim.
LINK TO APPLICATION
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Moraine Township would like to thank the community for joining with us to help provide a safety net for residents during this challenging year.
In mid-March -– seems like a lifetime ago -- we closed the Food Pantry from “shopping” to “drive-through” to ensure the safety of our clients, volunteers and staff. Our amazing community stepped up and provided the resources to purchase food since we no longer had staff or volunteers to safely handle food donations. As our Food Pantry numbers soared, in addition to residents who pick up food from the Pantry, we are also delivering to 25-35 households a week when residents are unable to visit the pantry because they are sheltering in place, dealing with illness in their family, or work during Pantry hours.
We are purchasing and distributing healthy shelf-stable food, dairy, meat, produce and bread from local stores and vendors, distributing cleaning supplies and personal care products, and grocery gift cards to local stores whenever possible. Our amazing and generous community made this possible.
With low-income hourly workers in the service industry being laid off in the spring and again this winter, through November Moraine Township distributed almost $75,000 of rent, utility and other assistance to help residents weather this crisis. Our heroic staff also helps households sign up for SNAP, utility assistance, Medicaid and health insurance as needed and eligible, and our van drivers continued taking residents needing thrice-weekly dialysis treatments throughout the year without interruption.
For many of us, 2020 has been a difficult year, but for some of our neighbors it has been a health and economic crisis. The saying “we’re all in this together” has never resonated more. Our goal at Moraine Township is to ensure that residents are fed and still in their homes when we get to the other end of this dark tunnel, and the community’s partnership makes this possible.
Moraine Township will be here for our neighbors for the long haul, and with you, look forward to better days in the coming year.
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FOOD PANTRY: open Tuesday 10 am until 2 pm
Para obtener asistencia para completar la solicitud en español, llame a Guadalupe Somerville al 847-432-3240.
Call 847-432-3240
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MORAINE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED TO SHOPPING DUE TO COVID-19
Drive-up food distribution Tuesday 10 am until 2 pm while Pantry is closed
If you are not able to visit the Pantry during regular hours, please call 847-432-3240
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For the safety of our riders and staff, we are temporarily suspending our van transportation
program for all riders except dialysis and chemotherapy patients.
We will have applications in an envelope on the porch to our office for various assistance
programs. Residents can telephone the office for help completing the applications and
return completed applications and documents to the locked mail box on our office porch.
Wherever possible, we will assist residents via phone with applications for Medicaid,
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF). Moraine Township staff will do everything possible to expedite processing applications for
emergency assistance.
Our goal is for staff to connect with each of the low-income seniors who have accessed
Township services to see how they are doing and what they may need, and try to figure out
how to get them critical supplies while they are safely staying home.
The following Township programs are suspended until further notice:
- VITA: Volunteer income tax preparation for low-income taxpayers;
- Passports:Passport application procession;
- Notary Services;
- Voter Registration;
- RTA Discount Card applications;
- Taxi coupon distribution.
Desperately need bags to pack food in since clients are not shopping with their own reusable
bags. We will have bins on the porch outside our office for untorn paper grocery bags.
We are fortunate to live in a unique and generous community. It takes a village and the
Township is grateful for our residents’ genuine concern for their struggling neighbors.
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If you have turned 65 and own a home in Moraine Township that is your primary residence, please make sure you apply for your senior homestead exemption to save money on your property taxes. Applications can be filed online here. Questions??? Call the Assessor’s office 847-432-2100.
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To qualify, applicants must:
- Be 65 years of age or older
- Own the property as their principle residence for the past two January 1
- Have a total household income of $65,000 or less
This exemption must be renewed annually for income qualification
To find out if you are eligible, or for assistance applying, please bring a copy of your 2019 income tax return to Moraine Township Assessor’s office at 800 Central Avenue, Highland Park or visit this website.
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Need a Passport Book or Card? Applications now accepted at Moraine Township >>
(05/20/18) Moraine Township is now certified to process first-time Passport Book and Passport Card Applications. Continue Reading >>
Download a flyer (pdf).
Services available to all residents
- Door-to-Door van transportation for seniors and disabled residents 847-432-3000
- RTA discount cards
- Voter registration
- Free Notary service
- Free Notary service (EXCEPT for documents relating to the conveyance of residential real property)
- Help enrolling for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act
- NEW Passport application processing
- Township Assessor 847-432-2100 Help with exemptions, understanding your assessment, filing an objection
Services for income-qualified residents
- General / Emergency Assistance
- Food Pantry
- Utility assistance
- Medical alert monitoring program for seniors and disabled residents
- Application assistance: Medicaid, SNAP, Benefit Access, TANF
- Resource referral for specific needs
- Free income tax return preparation for low-and-moderate-income taxpayers
Servicios disponibles para todos los residentes
- Transporte de camioneta puerta a puerta para personas mayores y residentes discapacitados 847-432-3000
- Tarjetas de descuento RTA
- Registro para votar
- Servicio gratuito de notario publico
- Servicio gratuito de notario public (EXCEPTO para documentos relacionados con el traspaso de bienes inmuebles residenciales)
- Ayuda para inscribirse en el seguro de salud. bajo la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio
- NUEVO: procesamiento de solicitud de pasaporte
- Asesor de Municipio 847-432-2100 Ayuda con las exenciones, entendiendo tu evaluación, presentación de una objeción
Servicios para residentes calificados por ingresos
- Asistencia general y de emergencia
- Despensa de alimentos
- Asistencia de utilidades
- Programa de alerta médicas para personas mayores y residentes discapacitados que viven solos
- Solicitud de asistencia: Medicaid, SNAP Acceso a Beneficios, TANF
- Recursos para necesidades específicas
- Preparación gratis de la declaración de impuestos para contribuyentes de ingresos bajos y moderados
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