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Show Iron County Public Welfare Cases Show Decrease A tctal of 241 cases received public pub-lic assistance amounting to $11.074j In Iron County In April 1945, Miss Mamie C. Eck. Director of the Iron County Department of Public Welfare, Wel-fare, reported today. Compared to the previous month, the number of cases and the amount of payments each decreased 29 percent. Of the $11,074 Issued recipients In Iron County in April, Miss Eck said, 79.0 percent, was for old-age as-' sistance; 11.3 percent fcr aid to , dependent children; 0.8 percent for I air to the blind: 6.0 percent for un-J un-J employables on general relief; 1.7, percent for foster care for children; and 09 p.rcent for adults in institutions. insti-tutions. For the first time in six years, since June 1938, tru number of recipients reci-pients of old-age assistance in Utah dropped below 13,000 when the caseload case-load in this nroeram numbered 12.- 960 in April 1945. This was revealed reveal-ed tcday by the Public Welfare Commission in releasing its monthly mon-thly report on the number of reel-oients reel-oients of public assistance and payments pay-ments for the State. It was noted' .hat the p ak old-age assistance -ise-load was reached in January '942 when 14.757 recipients wpre ispued assistance by the Department Since that date, the cld-age assistance as-sistance caseload has been decreasing decreas-ing slowly but steadily. Payments to the 12.9G0 recipi nUs of old-age assistance in April 1943 amounted to $480,400, an average per recipient of slightly over $37 Tliis totad represented a decrease cf $25.00 or one-half of one percent from the previous month and a reduction of $11,800 or 2 4 percent from the corresponding month last year. Fcr all of th" public assistance programs administered by the De-' De-' partment of Public Welfare, a total of $708,100 was paid in April 1945. |