PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island officials plan to respond to a warning they received from a federal agency regarding its new benefits system.
The U.S. Food and Nutrition Service told the state human services department in a letter this week that the federal agency will cut off financial aid to its food assistance program unless it submits a corrective action plan for its new operating system in two weeks.
Rhode Island is transitioning to a new, $364 million computer system for administering the public benefit. But the system has been mired in problems including delayed payments and long wait times.
Health and human services director Melba Depena Affigne says she’s confident they’ll be able to provide the info the federal agency needs and that they won’t reach the point where funding will be removed.
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