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Hearing officer keeps record open as New Britain Halal Market fights WIC disqualification
Summary
At a June 24 Department of Public Health administrative review, New Britain Halal Market disputed a vendor disqualification tied to missing invoices for March 10–April 10. The hearing officer left the record open three weeks for post-hearing briefs; no final decision was issued.
A hearing officer for the Connecticut Department of Public Health left the record open three weeks on June 24 as New Britain Halal Market appealed a WIC vendor disqualification tied to missing invoices, prolonging a decision that could remove the market from the WIC program.
The hearing officer, Aiden Baumann, said, “I'm gonna close the review today, but I'm keeping the record open for 3 weeks. That'll bring us to, July 15.” The market's attorney, John Wolfson of Feiner Wolfson LLC, said the market will pay the $4,400 monetary claim and asked the hearing officer to consider late submissions the market said would show no waste, fraud, or abuse.
The case concerns a vendor investigation and inventory audit focused on purchases and on‑hand inventory for March 10 through April 10, which the Department said did not support certain WIC redemptions. Kimberly Boulet, food resource and vendor management supervisor for the WIC program at the Department of Public Health, summarized the department's position: “There was a shortfall because we were not…
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