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Show MANY RECIPIENTS REFUSE TO SIGN LEIN ON PROPERTY Impact of the across-the-board lien provision on the number of old age assistance cases was be ginning to be felt at state welfare commission headquarters last week. Reports on the first 2200 of approximately ap-proximately 6000 recipients subject sub-ject to the lien show that approximately approxi-mately 30, or about 660, are refusing re-fusing to sign their property over to the state as a guarantee for partial reimbursement of assistance assist-ance rendered. The lien provision was written into Utah's welfare laws during the recent special session. An- plicable only to the real property of old age assistance cases, it is not collectable until the relief client dies at which time a $750 "burial" exemption is granted to the estate. In releasing preliminary figures, Dr. P. T. Farnsworth, commission chairman, pointed out that definite information as to how many old-age old-age assistance recipients will leave welfare rolls are not yet available. He said the commission has received re-ceived signed lien agreements from 1598 recipients to date and 600 other old age relief clients have been removed from June relief rolls for refusal to sign liens. "The decisions of the remaining 4000 recipients are yet to be made known to this office, but either the lien agreements will be submitted, sub-mitted, or the recipients' June checks will be canceled," he said. Elmoine W. Kirkham, commission commis-sion director of accounting and research, re-search, calculated that the 6G0 cases already removed from the rolls would reduce June expendi- . tures by approximately $26,000. |