The state’s Women Infants and Children Nutrition Program will not have the money to offer people benefits if the federal government’s shutdown continues past late November, a state health official said.
In an interview Tuesday, state Secretary of Health Dennis Worsham said federal funding for WIC has been threatened since before the shutdown that started at the beginning of October. In September, the Department of Health had been expecting an $18 million payment from the federal government. They received approximately $300,000.
“This was before the shutdown. So before October, we started to shift away from the administrative side of the program and focus solely on benefits not being disrupted,” Worsham said…