Financial pain for many Pa. service providers will continue after budget impasse ends

Story by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA

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HARRISBURG — Schools and nonprofits that provide critical services to Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable have not received billions in payments from the state over the past four months because of the budget impasse.

That money will be released when lawmakers agree on a plan. But it won’t include interest, even though the state Treasury has earned $40 million as it sits unused.

These organizations are in increasingly dire financial positions as the impasse continues, with some taking on debt because of the stalemate