Seed money for dozens of summer meal programs serving underprivileged youths has been bottled up for weeks, thanks to a shift in the way the state Education Departmentand the rest of the state, pays its bills.
At issue are the advance payments that community groups use to start up their summer nutrition programs.
“As of today, not a penny has gone out,” Morton Avigdor, a Brooklyn lawyer, said on Monday. He represents several meal providers around New York.
