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Show " " STUDIESI I I "U U SOCIOLOGIST STUDIES STUDIESOLD I OLD AGE DEEPNDENCY HERE HERE HERESALT 1- 1 1I . " - I Grandicounty SALT LAKE CITY-ThIrteen CITY ThIrteen - Grandi Grand Grandcounty andover county resIdents 65 years of age and over received old age pensions and 13 I Iother iother other Grand county residents over 65 65I received 65received rehef relief in forms other than old old- oldj oldage . - j I age pensions In m 1934 , according to a 1 thesis athesis ti \ \ ritten by Miss Elizabeth Deuel aI , I I , Salt Lake CIty , graduate student in socIology insocIology at the Umversity University of UtalI Utah The UtalIThe UtahThe thes thesis , The Admin AdmhjT S1 t ration of PubUc Public ofPubUc ofPublic Old-Age Old Age - - Pensions In Utah Ukh , " , " was ' prepared under the direction of Dr Arthur DrArthur L Beeley , head of the socIology wasJ department at the state universIty , as a asa m make ke work FERA project Although projectAlthough 6487 6467 Utah ' yearsof projectI rtizens c'Ttizens cTtizens 65 years I of age and ovel over are dependent , only 963 or 4 2 per cent reCCIve receive 1the lthe aSsIstance in 1 l the torm form of old-age old age - pensIons , according to the report " ' Counties which have haveactive active old age pension systems at pres pres- . - SaltLake ent present are Weeer Weber , DavIs , Morgan , Salt Lake , Wasatch , Utah , Uintah , Sanpete , Grand , Beaver and San Juan Coun- Coun - Counties ties which have hadi had penSIon systems at systemsat one time , but which have abandon abandon- abandoned . - I ed them because of lack Garfield Juab areJuab M11lard Millard , Carbon , and PlUte Piute Duchesne Duchene , of Washington funds , The are areI , I n 11 other counties in the state have I nevel nevei had a system of old " age pensions uIn "In In extent and amount of assistance j I the present old-age old age - pension is ob- ob - ' viously ob'lviously rThe obviously The Inadequate " the report states ob'l obl average monthly pension is isonly only I $743 743 $7 7 $ 43 The admill admigttration unlform ) ; > ; tration is not uni unl- unl . - I ' form Qne person in the state the receives I monthand maximum amount of $25 25 $ a . month and others receive month as low as $3 3 $ a I Undoubtedly there should be variations bevariations according to locahty locality and in- in dividual individual - circumstances , but it is ent apparent appar- appar - that if a person needs rel1ef relief to the thesiotni I penI extent slon penslon is siotni a , , dole $3 3 $3hist 3hist $3histertumly $ that Is " cert\lnly cert lnly ertumly ertumlynot he " \ ca "q q " aUfy not of ofpension a for pension the pen- pen : ; ant It - ! Suggestions for by Miss Deuel include Improvement made h the passage of hstatewIde ofstatewide state-wIde state wIde - mandatory old law to age pension , which tho the - would contrIbute county-and county and county and the state equal amounts . She suggests that for the mum maximum amount ot of t te the present the maxi- maxi - . e pension I maxiI set at $25 25 $ a month , which should be reduced to $16 16 $ 15 if the federal would be ment emment goteinment tail \ 111 ] m ' ttch ch thIS amount go gotein- gotein , em- em - |