Show I i Public Welfare Report For Month Of April A total of cases received public assistance amounting to In Sum Sum- Summit Summit Summit mit county In April 1945 J. J T. T Cun Cun- Cunningham Cunningham Cunningham director of ot the Summit coun coun- county county ty Department of or Public Welfare re reported re- re reported reported ported today Compared to the previous I coun-I I month the number of ot cases remained tho the same samo while payments advanced 13 per cent I Of ot the Issued recipients in I Summit county In April Mr Cunning Cunning- Cunningham ham bam said per cent was for tor old ago assistance e per cent for tor aid to de dependent de- de dependent dependent pendent children 15 per cent for tor aid to the blind per cent for tor ables on general relief relict 17 per cent for foster care taro for children 07 per cent lor tor adults In Institutions and 05 per cent for sight bight conservation For the first time In six years since singe June 1938 1038 the number of recipients of Gf t old-age old assistance In Utah dropped below when the caseload In this program numbered In April 1945 This was revealed today by the Public Welfare Commission In releasing its monthly report on the number of ot reel reel- recipients pleats of ot public assistance and ana pay pay- payments menU ments for the state It was noted that the peak old-age old assistance caseload was reached In January 1942 when 71 I recipients were re Issued assistance by the department Since that date the old- old age assistance caseload has been de decreasing de- de decreasing decreasing creasing slowly but steadily Payments to the recipients of age old assistance ass a s s i s tan t a n d c e In April 1945 I amounted amounted to an average per recipient of ot slightly over 37 This total total represented a decrease of ot 2500 or one- one half halt of ot one per cent from the previous and a reduction of 01 or 24 4 per cent from the corresponding month last year For all of the public assistance programs programs pro pro- programs grams administered by the Department pro of ot Public Welfare a total of 01 was paid In April 1945 This was a a. decrease I of at 2600 or tenths four-tenths of one per cent I from the amount paM paid in me tae corresponding I corres-I corres corres- corresponding month last l t year Cumulative Cum figures for the tho first four tour months or of 1945 up to and Including April totaled I For the same period last year assistance payments p ments totaled The old-age old assistance caseload and the employable caseload cascio ad were the only I two among the various programs admin admin- administered administered administered by the Department of ot Public I Welfare which continued to show the same or higher rate of ot decrease this year as last year Compared to a year ago the number of recipients of ot old- old ago assistance has declined or 34 per pel cent For the corresponding 12 month period the year before the old- old age agg assistance caseload had decreased only 32 per cent Likewise there was a greater actual as well as proportionate i reduction In the number of or receiving public assistance In April I 1945 there were only 42 cases cases' on the tho i public publio assistance rolls classified as em em- a reduction of 22 cases or per cent from the corresponding month j I last For the month 12 period April 1943 to Api Ap Il 1944 on public assistance decreased only per cent I IOn On the other hand the aid to depend- depend dependent depends ent eat children Caseload totaling 1848 In i April 1945 recorded a decline of ot only 39 19 I Iper per cent from the te previous April com- com compared comi compared compared i i pared to a per cent drop during the tho preceding year Unemployable cases re receiving re- re receiving receiving public pUb c assistance decreased 3 39 9 per Cent ent last year compared to a per cent reduction a year earlier The number of ot children in foster homes homes' adults In Institutions and transients l receiving public assistance each In Increased in-I in in- in increased creased last ast year at a much greater rate than the previous year m I |