Budget Shortfall Could Mean Cuts for Local Senior Citizens’ Meals - Harlan Enterprise

Budget shortfall could mean cuts for local senior citizens’ meals - Harlan Enterprise

By Jennifer McDaniels Harlan Enterprise Harlan County seniors dependent upon home delivery meals may be in danger of losing this service because of a state budget shortfall. The lack of funding for this critical resource that helps thousands of seniors in the state has surprised legislators who thought the money they appropriated was there. The shortfall is roughly $10 million for the Department for Aging and Independent Living, which falls unde…

Budget shortfalls for meal programs could leave many Kentucky seniors hungry

(Paducah-McCracken County Senior Center)Senior centers across the Bluegrass State are now facing a budgetary shortfall that has many cutting programs and reducing meal delivery services that employees say do more than just keep enrollees fed. During a recent Team Kentucky press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear detailed how the roughly $10 million shortfall came to be. He said that many centers' meal delivery programs, which are funded by one of the…