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July 1, 2021Topeka, Kan. |  By: AP

Governor: Kansas will keep providing extra COVID food aid


TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Gov. Laura Kelly has moved to keep 63,000 households from losing extra food aid because Kansas is no longer under a state of emergency for the coronavirus pandemic.

The announcement Tuesday that Kelly plans to continue the extra $14.5 million a month in aid came two weeks after top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature ended the state of emergency.

The Democratic governor's chief of staff had told reporters that the extra pandemic-related aid would end once the state of emergency expired June 15.

Republican leaders had argued that Kansas could continue to manage its pandemic response without an emergency declaration. The aid averages about $230 a month per household.