Show assistance PAYMENTS DROP IN FIST QUARTER OF 1943 payments of public assistance in utah in the first four months of 1943 totaled 2 compared to 2 in the same period last year payments in april 1943 to d more than the previous pravio us month an increase an a ol of 02 0 21 per cent I 1 that interrupted for fm the first tune time in over a year th the is downward trend in public assistance payments in U tah lah the upswing in total payments so iii april 1943 occurred in spite of a decrease ot of in the caseload case load ad of individual grants under standard adap a new budgetary ted by the state department of public welfare was responsible for the rise in payments although the budgetary standard provides tor far rel at ively substantial S increases both in it items cres ine included eded and amounts alto allowable the rise me in total P ym t was tes barely perceptible since it had been I 1 cen possible in april to evaluate cas basea 1 and adjust individual grants in ony only six per cent ol of the old oid age adms assist t ance caseload case load of none of the cases cas in the other categories had yet been touched although recorded statistics in april 1943 show a rise me in total pay P ay menta of only 0 2 per cent over th the e preceding month they offer a 3 to basis for prediction of what the eventual everil increase will be for those old ag abt recipients whose grants were ad austed in april the increase over the previous allowance averaged 7 5 50 0 each assuming that this rep resents a fair sample it can be ex peered that the increase in old age assistance payments payment will mean anit an it a rise me of over per months month or an increase 0 of 26 per cent over the is total previously 71 a us I 1 y paid to the same number of I 1 recipients by the he time grants to cases under all the he other programs have been adjusted thru the new budgetary standard I 1 in or creased ed payments over the previous previous basis will aggregate approximately I 1 1 Y per month it is to any attempt at prediction however to note that the number of cases continues to decline thus the total caseload case load orl of dif acif forent erent un duplicated hou households scho c receiving public assistance taie I 1 in apart dropped 1 14 4 per cent below the pre month the fifteenth con month of uninterrupted decrease the number of old age recipients decreased 03 0 3 per cent al aid I 1 to dependent children 3 37 7 per cent ables 37 3 7 per cent and ore employ ables es 18 2 per cent in every one of the larger programs oro Dro grams grawas except payments followed caseloads case loads downward in april the upswing of payments coup led ed to the continuing downward movement in caseload case load is ton ic of the economic conditions while the he need for public assistance in terms to of f number of recipients contracts the imen intensity sity of need contrat lice measure measured by jr the size of the grani gram among the relatively few dependent upon public assistance becomes greater plentiful work ty siphons off most all of the em con plo on the public assistance rolls at the same time this process seems always to be paralleled by rising cost in living the latter makes it necessary ne for the welfare agency to adjust grants upward the effect 0 of f plen plentiful t alful employment has been n not ot ord only y to cut down the public assistance rolls in terms of number of households but it has reduced the average size of families included among the dependent group in april 1943 1 16 households household including both family and single person cases received public assistance in utah the average number of persons in these households I 1 was 2 0 A year ago the average was 2 23 3 in 1941 it was 2 25 5 |