{"id":4359,"date":"2016-03-28T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2016-04-08T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T22:35:11","slug":"former-employee-warned-of-possible-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/former-employee-warned-of-possible-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Employee Warned Of Possible Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/former-employee-warned-of-possible-violence\/kentucky-cabinet-for-health-and-family-services\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Kentucky-Cabinet-for-Health-and-Family-Services.jpg?fit=282%2C59&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"282,59\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Kentucky-Cabinet-for-Health-and-Family-Services.jpg?fit=282%2C59&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Kentucky-Cabinet-for-Health-and-Family-Services.jpg?resize=282%2C59\" alt=\"Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services\" width=\"282\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4360\" \/><br \/>\nA former state employee says he was fired soon after telling superiors he feared possible violent reaction over problems with a new public benefits system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Norman &#8220;Chip&#8221; Ward is the former executive director of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services&#8217; ombudsman&#8217;s office. He said hundreds of callers have been frustrated over losing benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps. Ward said he was worried an angry client might visit a local state benefit office and become violent.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Chief of Staff Steve Davis last week declined to elaborate on Ward&#8217;s dismissal, saying it was &#8220;a personnel matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new system, Benefind, launched February 29.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former state employee says he was fired soon after telling superiors he feared possible violent reaction over problems with a new public benefits system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-18j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 14:38:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}