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Show Another Side to the Welfare Problem We have devoted editorial space occasionally to the subject of old age assistance in the county and state, main- j taining that a more liberal view or interpretation of the i law be given by the administrators of the law. There are always two sides to the story and we are therefore calling attention to one phase of the other side. Recently a visit to the welfare office in Logan was made and the question was asked Mr. Chambers, what the department de-partment was doing with the old people now engaged in part time work at the supply depot at Ogden. "Under the law," he said, "those earning occasional money should make a report to the welfare worker of the earnings so the amount could be deducted from the assistance check." To-date To-date we are told, very few individuals were doing that so it becomes the duty of the case worker to pry into the individual in-dividual cases and 'then take the necessary steps to adjust the matter. We were cited to an individual who was earning earn-ing close to $100.00 per month and had then accepted the assistance, check besides. "It is just as important that an individual report to the welfare department his earnings" Mr Chambers stated, "as it is for the welfare department to see that the individual be issued his monthly check from the state." We were told that any one can go put and earn as much as is possible, even to $100.00 or $150.00 per month and spend it and then the following month return to the rolls of the welfare department and receive his check. It would be a much more pleasant task for the case worker if voluntary information was given them. |
