Show thirty five cases receive public alic assistance A total of 35 cases received public L assistance amounting to 1470 in rich county in december 1944 mrs mary H rex director of the rich county department of public welfare reported recently the number of cases remained un changed from the previous months P 1 payments dropped 02 per cent of the 1470 issued recipients in rich county in december mrs rex said per cent was tor for old age assistance for aid to dependent children 60 per cent for ables on general relief and 34 por per cent for adults in institutions public assistance payments for december 1944 in all counties corn bained showed a slight increase from the previous month according to a report released by T david hettig director of research arid and statistics for the state department of public welfare payments to recipients under all categories of assistance totaled or 04 per cent increase over november payments but an amount or 08 per cent lower than the years high paid in march december payments benefited cases a slight increase from the previous month but a decrease of over cases fro from c december of last year of the total assistance payments made during the month or per cent was old age age assistance payments to recipients or per cent was aid to dependent children benefiting 1845 families or seven tenths of one per cent was for aid to the blind benefiting recipients or 73 per cent was for un benefiting 1403 cases 2010 or three tenths of one om percent was for employ ables benefiting 49 cases or 30 percent per cent was for transients foster me care for dependent and neglected children and adults in institutions benefiting persons or one per cent was for sight conservation and burials bu rials benefiting persons forty seven per cent of december payments amounting to was drawn from state sales tax funds per cent or from federal funds and per cent or from county funds it was pointed out by mr hettig that while the federal government contributes to the old age aid to dependent children and aid to the blind categories of assistance representing pl per r cent of the total assistance payments all other categories are financed entirely ahr through ough L extension ate of the soldier voting law I 1 state and county funds without bene f fit it of federal participation |