Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-12-27 | Page 13 | Utah Welfare Costs Rise to $993,878 in November

Utah Welfare Costs Rise ToS9.9 3 .8 ?U in November w Welfare assistance to Utah's needy cost $993,878 In .November, $156,040 more' than in September, last month before the expanded program of federal aid went into effect Welfare Commissioners J. Parley Par-ley White, and Wendell G rover, ro-ver, who Friday released the report re-port said that of the increase, $19,625 was in federal funds, and $76,414 in state and county monies. This is a 14.1 increase in state and county expenditures over Sep tember, while federal aid increased 28.7. Reasons for higher cost of welfare wel-fare program were given by them as an Increase In federal grants, adjustment of payments to recipients recipi-ents on a cost-of-living basis, and elimination of ceilings on family grants to accommodate large families. fam-ilies. Cost of the old age assistance program in November was $584,-962, $584,-962, an increase of $83,268 over September. Individual payments increased $6.48, includingJ4.50 in federal and! $1.98 state and county funds, bringing average payments to 12,839 recipients to $45.56. , In the aid to dependent children category, cost of which was $215,-899, $215,-899, an increase of $54,212, the proportion Df federal aid in the increase in-crease was smaller. The average Increase per family was $24.43, of which 49.12 was federal money and $13.31 state and county. This brings the 1 average family allowance allow-ance .for November to $98 per month for the 2219 families on the rolls. I