Help in North Carolina from Salvation Army

North Carolina based Salvation Army workers are trying as hard as possible, and moving as quickly as possible, to process the requests from people looking for help with paying utility bills. People are flooding the Salvation Army’s offices across North Carolina, including to the organization’s Social Services office at 226 South Cool Spring St. in Fayetteville, and ll people are hoping to take advantage of the $1.1 million in grant money that the Salvation Army received in February from the federal government.

Unfortunately people in need of help are being turned away from the Salvation Army because there are not enough workers to process the backlog of applications requesting help.

While temporary and contact workers have been hired to speed the process, they are still having to learn the procedure and get up to speed with the process, which slows things down. The Salvation Army is still tallying the numbers of people who have gotten utility bill assistance through the grant money. However, as of March 21, the Salvation Army had processed almost 1000 applications and provided almost $300,000 in energy bill aid.