Show public welfare report A total of cf 56 cases received public assistance amounting to 1685 in in san juan couty in april 1945 william ervin palmer director of the san juan county dept of public welfare reported today this represents a decrease of 35 per cent in the number of cases compared to the previous month and a drop of 17 per cent in the amount of assistance of the 1685 issued recipients in san juan county in april mr palmer said per cent was for ad age assistance 41 per cent for aid to dependent children 17 per cent for aid to the blind and 78 per cent ceni for ables on oil general relief for the first time in six years since june 1938 the number of recipients of old age assist assistance ance in utah dropped below when the caseload case load in this program numbered in april 1945 this was revealed by the public welfare commission in releasing its monthly report on the number of recipients of public assistance and payments for the state it was noted that the peak old age assistance caseload case load was reached in january 1942 when recipients were issued assistance by the department part ment since that date the old age assistance cas caseload case load cload has been decreasing slowly but steadily |