Show Director Of Public Welfare Gives Report A total of cases received public assistance amounting to In Summit county In July 1944 J. J T. T Cunningham Cunningham Cunningham Cun Cun- director of the Summit County Department of Public Welfare reported today There was no change In the number of cases from the previous month but payments decreased one- one half of one per cent Of Ot the Issued recipients In Summit county In July Mr Cunningham CunnIngham Cunningham Cunning CunnIng- ham said per cent was for tor old-age old assistance per cent for dependent children 16 per cent for the blind per cent for on general general general gen gen- eral relief and 33 per cent for all other aa foster I assistance foster care for children indigents In- In In Institutions and sight con con- No r received public public public pub pub- lic assistance in the county In July Meanwhile for the fourth consecutive month this year public assistance payments payments payments pay pay- ments in all aU counties combined showed a net et decrease from the previous month according to a report released today by T. T 1 David Director of Research and andI Statistics for the State Department of I Public Welfare Payments to recipients under all categories of assistance in I July totaled an amount 15 15 or 21 per cent lower than the years high of paid in March July payments cases a slight Increase from the previous month but a decrease of nearly cases from July last year Compared to the peak caseload month of September 1939 1039 the number receiving public assistance as assistance assistance as- as in July this year showed a net reduction of cases case cases cases-a a a decrease ot or nearly one third The coming of war industries to Utah caused sharp changes in the character of public assistance In the state Mr pointed out in the report The changes are manifest manliest not alone In the reduced case caseload load but quite as II significantly in the composition of the assistance load In 1939 27 per cent of the caseload consisted of ot people in families classed as employable people employable people who were well able to earn th their lr own living if they only had jobs There were upwards of such people dependent on public assistance Today but one- one halt half of ot one per cent of the caseload is made up of employable and their families During the year five-year period of ot otvar Var War industrial expansion the employ employ- employable employable able caseload in n Utah has decreased 99 per cent cent from from to 45 families Employment opportunities which de developed developed developed de- de during the past five years under I wartime conditions removed from the public assistance caseload not only 09 99 per cent of the so-called so bu but also a substantial number of ot recipients recipients recipients reci reci- ordinarily considered able Between September 1939 and July 1944 the old-age old assistance caseload declined over aid to dependent children children chil chil- dren 1400 aid to the blind 80 on general relief 1600 I The number of ot cases receiving public assistance and total payments to these cases case under the various programs are I given below Comparable figures figured for July Julya j ja I Ia a year ago are shown In parenthesis Old age assistance recipients recipients I aid to dependent children 1859 families i 1974 families aid to to the blind recipients 1118 I recipients 1405 I cases 1621 1611 trios cases emI em em- I 45 cases cased 1709 71 cases i i 2450 foster care children I children indigents In institutions institutions In- In 1 persons persons persons persons per per- perI I sons 2608 transients 15 cases 24 cases sight eight conservation persons persons 1944 and burials 16 16 1584 1584 13 I |