Show public assistance expenditures show steady increase expenditures tor for public ao an st si stance in utah have continued continue to mount each year total public assistance expenditure for tho fiscal year ended june 30 1949 was waa compared with for or fiscal 1948 thi ahll ij represents presenta rc an increase of 11 per cent c e n t over the previous year since 1840 1940 public assistance outlay has increased 78 per cent state funds provided 78 million in 1949 federal aid provided 48 million tile the 1949 utah legislature in view of tho the unprecedented domand demand for funds for education and building requirements set tho the public assistance appropriation cpr the current I 1 ending juno june SO 30 1961 1951 at this was waa less than the public welfare department part ment requested and legg lean than the total welfare appropriation for the previous bl bi englum ilum TR to keep within their appropriation for tile welfare comila filan had ad tile the choice of making a flat across the board cut reducing all grants granis or to tighten Kliten tl up of stanco payments and revise the ho standards of granting randhir ran thiR aid to secure a more distribution of welfare funds tile alie public welfare commission Con imla prepared a revised budget for fo lot rm lulng need that twos waa effective ve in may in april licot two fain were breo eo on tho the public assistance roll aft bough two df tho I 1 in each camly were each receiving a monthly wage of or a total of 0 a month per farally family under the he existing standards effective in ili april these two children were required to contribute only 26 each pet per month to support of their family and each family was given a substantial welfare grant under the modified stand standard ardix made effective in may alay these families were removed from the assistance roll in may 1949 tile the departmental maxtin maximum um grant for a recipient was for the first time since the adoption of statutory baxt murns mums in 1947 reduced below the legislative maximum previous to this time the philosophy of the welfare department wait waa to make assistance payments on oil tile the basis that funds funda should be made available to provide every recipient with an income equal to the maxi maximum murn grant fixed by the legislature following clarification fi of tile the legislative intent and a change in administrative it would appear that tile the policy of 0 tile the commission la IS that payments should be adjusted to meet kneet the requirements of those most moat in need to tile the extent which appropriated funds will permit 1 11 4 the 1949 19 4 9 legislature amended the public assistance act intending to provide a means whereby the public welfare commission might force orco payment ot of alimony decreed by the court it if all all mon mony awarded by the courts to families now on welfare rolls wore paid a savin nearly ono one third million dollars per year in public assistance would result under the now standards for determining need tile the total public assistance payments were reduced from in april to fo in n may alay an in junel june this rep re presenta rosenia a total reduction of apar approximately 04 PUBLIC assistance expenditures IN UTAH alual evno 1949 adad sorbo f million of doffs 95 91 89 78 al 1 62 60 cv any W fa oko o ko ta 1 mo 1941 1949 uh I 1 da 1 for or the months of may and june however the tai e modified standards reduced the total as si distance stance payments more inore than was waa necessary to stay within tile the funds aval available lable and the department ended tile the biennium blenn luni with a balance of approximated the balance of li plus federal ed pral matching money was distributed tri buted butel by tho the commission W V recipients whose grants had been out cut in may alay and juno june tho the total additional payment was the ri assistance aasi stanco payment for old age recipients re cip lents in july 1949 was wag compared to for january 1949 the average payment payi nent to aid to de pendent children dropped from in ili january to 94 in july A chanko change in assistance payments effective in son 1949 will increase In creaso the average payment of 0 old bre recipients by approximately tile the number of persons persona on oil welfare rolls in july 1949 was only halt half tile the number in ili april 1941 1441 when utah residents nearly one olie of the population lation of the state were receiving public welfare assistance because average payments were much lower total welfare expenditures in III utah were for 1941 1041 compared with for 1049 1949 when there were half na as many any welfare recipients it if the number of per sons oil mi welfare rolls were to increase Iner eaRe o tile 1041 1941 level and pay inputs maintained f at the ID 19 19 lovel leye utah public welfare expenditures w would 0 u I 1 d Illo mount tint to per year en e n ingre than th tsueo ree times tile the actually spent in 1941 |