City leadership has expanded the number of seniors who will have access to fresh, healthy food through the Federal Way Farmers Market Healthy Seniors Voucher Program.

There will now be 60 vouchers available instead of the prior 36, and the value of each voucher has been increased from $6 to $10, according to a decision at the Aug. 12 meeting of the Federal Way City Council.

The policy question considered at council was initially a much smaller amount — a request of $504 in additional funding for the program to bring the number of weekly vouchers up to 50 for the last months of the 2025 market season.

While $6 may not seem like a lot, Federal Way Farmers Market Assistant Manager Vickie Chynoweth described the impact of the vouchers and the seriousness of the need, telling the council tha

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