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Show AUGUST 9, 1952. Foundation Clarifies Lien Law heirs who either have been unable the Welfare Department on to give financial aid, or have prebudget, imposed maximums on SALT LAKE CITY Utah is one of 33 states that have adopted laws permitting the recovery of public e assistance paid to an recipient from his estate, according to a research report detailing five years of'experience under Utahs lien law released today by Utah Foundation. More than half of these states ine cluding Utah, require that an recipient owning real estate must sign a formal property lien before assistance is granted. In the case of the District of Columbia where the Federal Congress is1 the legislative authority, all old age assistance granted plus three percent interest constitutes a claim against the recipients estate. If the recipient is deemed incapable of proper management of property, assignment to the District may be required. Utahs lien law, enacted in 1947 and later revised in 1948, allows the State to recover from the e estates of recipients, who at death possess real property 'valued in excess of a liberal cash exemption; the actual amount of public assistance provided. In effect, the lien law permits the State to obtain reimbursement of public assistance before property of old age recipients may be claimed by old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- heirs. Recovery is made only after the death of the recipient and spouse, or when property is sold and transferred, or when the recipient desires to repay the State for the amount of public assistance received in order to discharge the lien against The recipient and husband or wife cannot be disturbed in the use of the homestead during their lifetimes. The only parties affected by the lien law are the children or other his estate. ' srrr THE JOURNAL 'Stole' Red MIG ferred to permit the State to supply funds for the support of their aged relatives rather than comply with their moral and legal obligation to support such relatives. In no case since the lien law became effective has it been necessary for the State to initiate foreclosure proceedings or acquire property in order to satisfy the amount of the lien. In most cases, heirs have made settlement to clear the property which they inherit. e Utahs assistance grants are now 10th highest in the nation. The reduction in the number of e recipients resulting from the lien and other restrictive measures has been an important factor in making possible recent grant ine creases for recipients. Between December, 1942 and December, 1951, 18 states had decreases in thenumber of recipients e listed on their assistance rolls. All but one of these 18 states have lien or recovery provisions in their welfare laws. Prior to 1937, state laws and regulations in Utah provided that liens against property could be required as a condition precedent to e assistance. Howgranting ever, legislation enacted in 1937 barred any effective recovery of public assistance grants and further liberalized the welfare laws. Principally as a result of the elimination of the lien by the 1937 e legislature, the number of recipients nearly doubled from GJ340 in June, 1937 to 12,9S2 in June, 1938. In June, 1937, just,before application of the 1937 welfare legislaof Utahs population tion, 25.2 5 over were receiving and aged e assistance. By June, 1938, this percentage had increased to 48.1 and Utah had the second e recipient rate in the highest entire nation. Mounting public assistance costs promoted the adoption of the Public Assistance Act of 1947, which placed old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- a as- sistance grants, restricted the amount of property (exclusive of a home) that a recipient could own, and reinstated the practice of taking liens on property owped by e recipients. The 1948 Special Session of the Legislature strengthened the lien requirement by reducing the exemption allowed from $1,200 assessed valuation or $3,000 cash value to $300 assessed valuation or " $750 cash value. Since adoption of the lien law, e the number of recipients . On in Utah has decreased e the other hand, recipients in the seven other Mountain States e and have increased 23.4 recipients throughout the United States have increased 22.9 during the same period. If Utah had followed the trend for the seven other Mountain States or the United States and grants were maintained at their present levels, then the State would now be spending $3.8 million a year more e assistance. for Since adoption of the lien law, public assistance recoveries have amounted to $294,468,, of which $170,421 was the Federal Governments share and $124, (M7 was the States share. The major value of the lien law is not the amounts which are ree covered from the estates of the assistance recipients. Rather, it is the fact that the lien law eliminates much of the incentive to seek public assistance for persons able to provide for themselves since such assistance must eventually be repaid from their estates. The lien law thus preserves public assistance funds for persons most in need.' ' old-ag- old-ag- 23-8- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- A , 3. Marry 4. Cry out 5. Affected as grass 4. Droop in handy the middle 7. Venture 8. Hastens 10. 11. 13. 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