WICHITA, Kan. (AP) One of the state’s biggest counties has asked Kansas health officials to block people living in the country illegally from receiving benefits under the federal nutrition program Woman, Infants and Children.
The Wichita Eagle reports three of the five Sedgwick County commissioners supported a letter chairman Richard Ranzau sent to the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment last week seeking the change.
The WIC program issues checks to low-income families for foods like milk, eggs, cereal, cheese and baby formula. Ranzau wrote that the majority of commissioners are “very concerned that the WIC program provides benefits to persons who are not citizens.
Two commissioners opposed asking the state to change its rules, saying the 3-2 consensus doesn’t reflect the feelings of the majority of county residents.
