Show public welfare report the san juan county board of public welfare approved payment of public assistance for 53 cases amounting to 1648 in may 1945 according to director wm ervin palmer of the county department of public welfare compared to the previous month this depre dented a decrease of 53 per cent in number of cases and 22 per j cent in total payments of the 1648 issued san juan county recipients of public assistance in may mr palmer said 86 per cent was for old age assistance 4 per cent aid to dependent children 2 per cent aid to the blind and 8 per cent aid to un empl A 1945 amendment to the state old age assistance law is reflected in in a increase in payments to recipients under that program in may 1945 according to a report released today by the utah public welfare commission the amendment which became law on may 8 1945 raised the amount defined by statute as the minimum need of an aged person from 30 to 40 per month the full increase under the new law will not be evident until june payments are tabulated since for may the increase applied only to part cf the month may 8 31 it affected approximately 13 of old age assistance caseload case load of A reduction of nearly in the number of recipients of old age assistance held the total increase below what it otherwise might have been the average grant per old age person receiving assistance advanced from in april to in may |