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Show Who Is Eligible For Welfare Help? As people get together and talk in groups or read various articles in newspapers and magazines, more and more is being said about welfare. Therefore, various questions I arise in their minds in regard to what the Welfare Department Depart-ment is trying to do: "Get everyone on welfare?" "Bring about a welfare state?" Yet, very few people actually ac-tually know who is eligible for welfare assistance. In our country as in every other there are some illiterate, unskilled, alcoholic, moderately moderat-ely emotionally disturbed, partly physically disabled, or character - disordered people who are eligible for welfare. There are also some fully employable em-ployable people who are temporarily tem-porarily unemployed who may be helped by the state. It is the type of person described des-cribed above that is normally thought of as "on welfare," and therefore all welfare recipients re-cipients are thought of in that light. However, statistics show that only 3 of the total state welfare case load is this type of individual. The majority of those persons per-sons on welfare rolls are the chronically ill, the blind, the deaf, the aged, the mentally defective, the physically disabled, dis-abled, the unwed mother, the mentally ill, and the abused, abandoned, and neglected child. Families who lack a breadwinner bread-winner due to death, desertion, deser-tion, etc., families needing , homemaker services, persons 1 needing nursing home care, children needing daycare services, ser-vices, persons needing counseling, counsel-ing, children and families needing adoption services, vie tims of disaster, transient persons, per-sons, and displaced persons are also a major part of the welfare rolls. Here, in Iron County, the Welfare Department is doing all it can by offering more and better services to rehabilitate rehabil-itate these people so that they j will not always be labeled welfare clients. At the present time, work projects are being used so that anyone who is able to work can be placed on one of these projects where they can work out their welfare wel-fare assistance at $1.00 per hour. |