State Will Pay $600M to Flint Victims

The State of Michigan will pay $600 million dollars to victims of the Flint water crisis.

The settlement will be officially announced by Governor Gretchen Whitmer tomorrow.

80 percent of the money will go to people who were age 18 or younger in 2014, when a switch in the city’s water source exposed tens of thousands of residents to dangerous levels of lead in their drinking water. More than half of that amount will go to children who were age six or younger.

The settlement will resolve multiple lawsuits against the state, and will also include those who were sickened because of a concurrent outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease.

It does not address lawsuits against other parties, including private companies and former Governor Rick Snyder.