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Show mm ite V'4 riihirffif editor's opinion Welfare is a Right? established and administered by it is impossible to determine eligibility without knowing the law and seeing the application. The people employed by public assistance are the only ones who must determine eligibility. The community must stand behind its agencies or the communjty can law. make an agency ineffective. Our society labors under the concept that we live in a land where everyone can pull himself up by the bootstraps" if he really wants to do so. Because of this concept, people who are forced by circumstances to apply for public assistance are also applying for public disapproval. Feelings of inadequacy are high when they are faced with the fact that they cannot financially care for themselves and their families and then the public intensifies these feelings by saying they could take care ofthemselves if they only wanted to do so. Just this attitude Some of the frustrations of people receiving public assistance are seldom discussed. What is it like to never have quite enough to give the children things most other children have or be able to send them where most children can go? What is it like to not have the public, often think that we are the reluctant participants to charity when we pay our taxes as we view others We, receiving public assistance. Welfare is not charity, it is a right alone can create problems on top many new of existing enough to socialize in groups where others find pleasure and companionship? What is it like to give in to the pleasure of some luxury like a television set and feel quilty because the children are denied something else? Each person deals with these problems WANTED Nursing Homes Medicaid Serving Senior Citizens to attend weekly luncheon at Patients Must Redwood Service Center Be Certified Lunch by Reservation: 466-875- 5 A massive Federal effort to Cost per plate: 60 cents 12:00 noon Reservations by Monday - Tuesdays FREE B I upgrade long term care facilities will reached a milestone on Saturday, July 1, the deadline announced last November 30 by Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot L. Richardson for cutoff of Federal support to substandard nursing homes. As of that date, established as part of a multi-pronge- -- NGO WITH PRIZES different ways, but everyone does respond to frustration. What about the children who do not in d receive adequate care? Most problems. There are many faults in public assistance but there are also many misunderstandings bv the public. Some of them are regarding cheating to get on the rolls, having children to get more money, and that most people on welfare prefer it to supporting themselves and their families by working. Fraud is indicated in less of cases than one half of 1 nationally. Payments for additional children run far less than the cost of rearing a child. The national average is about $35.00 per month of each child. Nationally a family is on public assistance an average of 23 months which seems to indicate people prefer to sustain themselves. Most longterm cases involve some unchangeable disability. These are common topics in print but what is seldom in print is discussing the person you know who is cheating, having babies or living high on welfare. First of all agg &smm& rfii program to upgrade long term people will care facilities ordered by it, President Nixon last August 6, each State must have completed certification of all skilled nursing homes providing care to Medicaid observe, maybe report but hardly ever be willing to involve themselves with their name on the line in a real helping way to either the parent or child. This is one way a community can stand behind an agency rather Don't be left out! patients. All States will lose Federal than expecting the agency to the homes they have not yet certified. Those homes failing to meet Federal Medicaid standards for patient care and safety will no longer be eligible to participate in the Medicaid program. States will no longer receive Federal funds for them. HEW is recommending to State Medicaid agencies that in mid-Julthey release or make available to the public the results of survey reports of individual y homes they have inspected. As soon as this information becomes available, the Financial Participation (FFP) for carry the load under criticism. It is difficult, if not impossible to legislaterrora lity in any way. Basic human needs must be met and we cannot assume all people will satisfy needs in the same way. Do we have the right to deny the basic needs of children YOUNG WOMEN 16 to 21 and adults because all do not conform to our standards? We remember the ones who do not conform while the majority who do conform are forgotten or punished for the sins of others. Welfare people do not ask for - sympathy understanding. Welfare a YOU CAM only help and is a right, precious right, and any individual point in may neet it at some LEARN A SKILL FOR A GOOD JOB LEARN TO READ AND WRITE BETTER GET A GED (High School Equivalency Certificate) time. salt lake metis! neighborhood news volume one " 1. The Model Neighborhood News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board 2. 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