CLINTON COUNTY, Ind. – Clinton County and its towns and communities are set to receive over $1.2 million as part of a $26 billion national settlement with Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. Indiana’s share of the settlement is approximately $507 million and all cities, towns, and counties in the state are participating in the settlement.
Clinton County Commissioners President Jordan Brewer provided an overview of how this money can be used and the time period of the payout.
“We’ll (Clinton County government) receive close to $750,000 over 18-years in this settlement money,” said Brewer. “So it’s roughly $208,000 that is for unrestricted; that we have a lot more freedom to use. Then there’s $440,000 that is for restricted use that they’ve identified and it’s a 15-page PDF so I don’t know all of them, but it’s very tailored to the specific crisis in addressing it.”
“So ’22 we’ll receive our largest payment and then it starts to fall a bell curve where it starts out low, it kind of peaks in the middle and then it trails off towards the last four or five years. So it’s not an equal distribution, consistent across the whole timeframe.”
Brewer looks to working with all the communities of Clinton County in putting
“We’ll work with, hopefully, the other towns that received money, the City of Frankfort, and then some of our local partners that work in that field every day and come up with a plan of how we can address that in this community.”
The State of Indiana anticipates that the 2022 payments will be transferred in the fall of 2022.
