LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Senior citizens in need of food are off the wait list after six weeks of not knowing where their next meal would come from.

That fear came in early September after state funds for senior meal services dried up.

On Monday, the Beshear administration reallocated $9.1 million from an unused Medicaid study to restock those funds. However, the Governor worries a solution won’t be as easy to come by if this problem presents itself in the next fiscal year.

The Bluegrass Area Development District serves 600 seniors by providing them with one in-home or congregate meal a day. When Executive Director David Duttlinger heard state funds ran out, he had to shift money from administration and reduce services to three times a day.

“We were a little bit better off than some o

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