Tazwood Community Services, Inc.

12/17/2024

12/16/2024

Update: Phones fixed as of approximately 10:00 AM. Thank you for your patience!

We are currently unable to receive phone calls, but can make outgoing calls. Our IT is looking into the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update this post once it is fixed. Thank you!

11/26/2024

We are hiring a Program Specialist for our Pekin office and a Program Specialist for our Bloomington office. Please follow the link to our website to learn more and information on how to apply. Please make sure that you apply for the correct office location!

https://www.tazwoodcs.org/employment-opportunity

09/23/2024

Reminder that today is the LIHEAP call-in day. Our phone lines will have hundreds of people trying to call in at one time with all available staff answering the phones. It may take quite some time before you get through on the phone lines. The phones ARE WORKING unless we make a post here stating otherwise, so please do not post saying the phones are saying unavailable or not working. That will happen when the entire phone queue is to maximum capacity.

At approximately 4:00 PM today, the online scheduling system will be live. We cannot guarantee appointments will still be available, but the system will be live for the remainder of the LIHEAP season later today.

Please be kind and patient with our staff as they work diligently to get through calls quickly, but also taking the time to answer any questions people may have. Thank you!

09/19/2024

Please note, phone lines will be tied up on 9/23/2024 for our LIHEAP call-in day. Thank you!

09/06/2024

Due to lack of applications, we are extending the due date to submit scholarship applications. The application can be printed from our website, or call us and we can mail a paper version to you. Thank you!

09/03/2024

We will begin scheduling appointments for LIHEAP later this month. Priority periods are back, so here are the guidelines:

October Appointments - households with a person 60 or older, a person receiving disability, OR a child in the home age 5 or younger. Customer's with a disconnection notice or disconnected services are eligible for emergency services.

November Appointments - all income eligible households are eligible to apply

Our call-in day is on 9/23/2024, and we will be scheduling appointments for October and November. The online scheduling system will be available after 4:00 PM on 9/23/2024.

The online scheduling system will unlock appointments each day with a 60 day rolling clock. If you check for an appointment and it says none are available, please check back the next day until some are available. For example, on October 3, appointments for December 2 will open up because that's 60 days out.

Please REMEMBER that call-in day is very busy. All agency staff are answering the phones all day to schedule appointments with you. Please be kind, patient, and understanding!

For more information, visit our website: www.tazwoodcs.org/liheap

08/27/2024

Our PEKIN and BLOOMINGTON office locations will be closed all day on Thursday, August 29, 2024, for Agency Staff Training!

08/16/2024

Our BLOOMINGTON location will be closing at 12:00 PM today, Friday August 16, 2024. Our PEKIN location will remain open for immediate concerns or assistance needs (309) 266-9941. Thank you!

08/08/2024

Some upcoming closings for each location tomorrow for training.

08/05/2024

Our PEKIN location will be closing at 12:00 PM today, Monday August 5, 2024. Our BLOOMINGTON location will remain open for immediate concerns or assistance needs (309) 533-7723. Thank you!

08/01/2024

We have exhausted our LIHEAP funding. We will post in the coming weeks more information about when the new program starts.

07/22/2024

https://www.tazwoodcs.org/scholarship

Please call us if you would like to pick up an application or have one mailed to you.

07/19/2024

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