Show For PMs PM's of September 29 1945 Public Ic assistance payments to to- totaling totaling aling in August 1945 was vas authorized by the Davis lavis county board oard board of public welfare William II I. I Wilcox director of the county department of public welfare elfare re- re ported These payments benefited needy individuals and families in In n the county August payments represent an increase of 74 from July and the number of cases in in- increased increased creased one Of the total Mr Wilcox said or per cent was vas paid laid to cases under the old age assistance program 2956 or per cent was issued to 35 families with dependent children or 07 7 per lC cent was for two aid to the blind cases 1342 or 39 per cent was for aid to 17 cases classified as unemployed ed or 12 per percent percent cent ent was fer for 8 dependent and neglected ne no- I children 95 or 05 per percent percent percent cent was for the care care- care of four adults in institutions and 73 73 or 04 per cent was for two transient tr cases Public assistance ass tance payments to to- totaling totaling were made to tp s li ni id Utah in August 1945 according to a report released today by b the pub lie lic welfare commission This amount represented a decrease of ol f 2100 from the previous month I and the caseload was 60 smaller Compared to payments in August t last year however the total had ha 1 I increased while the case case- caseload load oad had decreased While payments of old old age age as assistance foster care and aid to tc I transients increased other public S assistance costs were lower last lasi t month than they were a year ago The rise In old age assistance S alone alone resulting from in in- increases increases creases in individual payments un under der a 1945 amendment to the old old- age assistance law was law was higher than the net increase for all pro pro- programs grams combined The number of ol f recipients of old-age old assistance however declined over the thc S year Foster care payments reach reach- reached reached reached ed a a anew new high of in Aug p 2260 higher than such payments in the corresponding month last t year The Tho number of children bene benc filing fiting through public aid in foster homes totaled 38 higher in 1945 Aid to transients increased Decreases in payments under other programs partially offset L the rise in old-age old assistance fos foster ter care and aid too transients Payments of aid to dependent to I children decreased from last las t year and the number of families s 3 dropped 56 Aid to the blind was wa s lower and the caseload de declined deS dined by 5 Aid to unemployable S was down and the number of o if I cases dropped 61 Aid to employ employ- ables decreased and cases 20 21 01 Payment Pa of boarding care for in- in indigents indigents indigents in institutions totaled lower but the number of cases increased 28 Both expenditures and and- cases under the sight conser conser- conservation conservation conservation program decreased and cases respectively Like Like- Likewise Likewise wise burials decreased both in cost and number payments drop drop- dropping dropping ping and the number decreasing decreasing ing fag by 5 |