HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — They can’t fix all the issues with the process — because some of the issues aren’t theirs to fix — but Dauphin County leaders said Thursday they would do what they could to ease the process of applying for annual $50 vouchers to be used at farmers markets.

Earlier in the week, the county issued a press release announcing details of the 2024 application process, and abc27 News reported what was in the announcement.

But alerted by a viewer to kinks in the process, abc27 reviewed it, hit the same roadblocks and contacted the county. Among the issues: The application was difficult to find on the website, contained contradictory information and has to be printed, even though not everyone has a printer. (The county’s Area Agency on Aging is automatically mailing this year’s application to people who qualified for the program last year.)

The bad news, explained county spokesperson Diane McNaughton: The county can’t change the form itself, because it’s a state form.

But McNaughton said the county would place a prominent link to the program on its homepage (by Thursday afternoon, it was already there) and would make paper copies of the application available at the county’s 11 senior centers.

Additionally, McNaughton said the Area Agency on Aging can also mail forms to anyone who needs one — just call the program’s dedicated phone number: 717-780-6209.

The $50 vouchers themselves will begin going out after June 1.

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Dauphin County residents who are 60 or older are eligible if they have an income of $27,861 or less for one person in the household or $37,814 or less for two people in the household.

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