Show public welfare report cases receiving public assistance in san juan county in june 1945 numbered 52 receiving 1615 according to wm ervin palmer director of the county department of public welfare this was a decrease cr ease of 0 33 cm compared pared with may entirely in the ol d age assistance program the number of cases decreased one from may of the 1615 issued recipients of public assistance in san juan county mr palmer said 86 per cent was for old age assistance 4 per cent aid to dependent children 2 per cent ai aid I to the blind and 8 per cent aid to ables old age assistance paymer payments its in june 1945 first month to reflect the full effect of a 1945 amendment to old age assistance law totaled an increase of over april 1945 last of operation under the old law the 1945 amendment raised the amount statutorily defined as minimum need of an aged person from 30 to 40 per month the increase was shown in a report released today by the public welfare commission which noted that the average payment per recipient of old age assistance in utah in june was highest in the history of public assistance in the state |