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Lower Shore Expects Cutbacks for Meals On Wheels

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Many seniors may be seeing some serious cutbacks in the Meals on Wheels program.

The 2016 Maryland Budget has resulted in the Department of Aging changing its formula toward those areas with rising populations of seniors.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the Lower Shore is not one of those areas.

That could force MAC which provides assistance to seniors in the counties of Wicomic, Worcester, Somerset and Dorchester with a serious financial shortfall of nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Specifically the Meals on Wheels program will see a reduction of 58-hundred meals and a cutback to senior centers by 84-hundred.

 

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.