A Flint water crisis legal settlement has been proposed. It totals 600 million dollars and will create a victim compensation fund.
Flint residents would be eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from a court-monitored victim compensation fund, with nearly 80% of payments going to those who were under 18 at the time of the crisis, which began in April of 2014.
Parties to the settlement would include multiple governmental defendants including the state of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and all individual state defendants, including former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who left office at the end of 2018.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of lead, which can impact brain development and the state would create a dedicated $12-million fund to provide special education and other services for students who suffer long-term health and behavioral impacts from lead poisoning.
About 65 percent of the money would go to Flint residents who were 6 and under when first exposed to lead in Flint water, with 10 percent going to those who were between the ages of 7 and 11 and 5 percent to those who were 12 to 17. About 15 percent would go to adults, 3% for property damage, and 0.5 percent to cover business losses.
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