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The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-06
DUTIES ARE OUTLINED

Duties of the state department are
defined in Section 5. The depart
ment shall:
Administer or supervise old-age
assistance, aid to dependent chill
dren and assistance to the blind
and otherwise handicapped
Supervise operation of the states
charitable, penal, reformatory and
correctional institutions and the
School for the Blind, the School for
the Deaf and the Board of Indus
trial Aid for the Blind; the opera
ton of all agencies and institutions
caring for dependent or mentally or
physically handicapped or aged
adults, including the approval Of the
incorporation of charitable agencies.
Administer or supervise all child
welfare services, the licensing and
supervision of private and local pub
lie child-caring agencies and inSti-
tutions the care of dependent and
neglected children in foster family
homes, or in institutions; exercise
supervision and control of delin-
quent children and probation when
assigned by a court having juvenile
jurisdiction; supervise operation of
all state institutions for children,
James Whitcomb Riley Hospital ex-
cepted.
The department also is given
supervision over all benevolent insti-
tutions supported in whole or in
part by public funds and on non-
institutional care connected with
such institutions.
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PROVIDE MEDICAL AID

Inmates of private or public
homes are eligible if they cease to
be inmates.
Persons receiving old-age assist
ance are not entitled to other forms
of relief except temporary medical
and surgical assistance, and neces-
sary hospital expenses under Sec
ton 33.
Section 81 limits maximum
monthly assistance to an individual
to $50.
Under Section 35 applications for
assistance shall be made to county
or district departments in writing.
Section SO provides for thorough
investigation by the county depart
ment.
Section 81 imposes authority on
the county departments to grant
monthly old-age assistance notify
ing the applicant and state depart
ment in writing. Thereafter, un-
less modified, the award is binding
upon the county.
Under Section 38 assistance grant
ed the applicant shall constitute a
lien against the estate of the recip-
lent for any amounts recoverable.
The county department may des-
ignate responsible person to
handle installments due a recipient
who may be deemed incapable, as
provided in Section 80.
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FINANCIAL PLAN OUTLINED

Provision is made for establish
ment of free public employment
offices. A pooled account" is de-
fined as an account in which funds
are mingled for benefit of persons
not eligible for reserve account
payments which, in turn, are de-
fined as accounts maintained
separately by employers for his own
employees.
Balance in reserve accounts Is
defined as excess of all contribu-
lions received from employer and
employees plus amounts transferred
from the pooled account" when
the Reserve account may be over
drawn. Wages are held to be any
remuneration other than cash paid
to an individual by an employe in
any calendar year.
Sections 2 and 3 are principally
definitions. Section 4 sets forth the
following contribution requirements
Employers become taxable April
l, 1886, and must pay their contri-
buttons to the State Treasurer
monthly except that the state di-
rector may permit established en-
ployers of financial responsibility to
make payment less frequently, in no
case less often than annually. En-
ployer contributions may not be de-
Quoted from wages of individuals in
his employ.
Employers pay nine-tenths of l
per cent of their total pay roll dur
ing 1886 after April /. The levy in
creases to 18 per cent in 1887
and to 2.7 per cent on their 1888
and 1893 pay rolls.
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ACCOUNT is POOLED

The pooled account is raised by
collecting one-sixth of the amounts
paid into reserve accounts. If sub
sequent to 1941, the pooled fund
balance amounts to 21a per cent of
the total pay roll in any year of
all employers liable under the act,
no transfers are to be made from
normal reserve accounts.
Section deals with benefit pay
ments. They may not begin until
two years after contributions first
accrue. Benefits are to be paid
through the state employment
agencies.
Total unemployment benefits may
equal half of the eligible's full time
wage, subject to SIS maximum ano
SIS minimum. Partial unemployment
benefits are to be paid in amount
that would equal full time wages
when added to the part time wages
To be eligible for benefits, Sec.
ton 6 sets out that jobless
individual must register at employ.
ment offices designated by the
board, must be physically and men.
tally able to work and available for
work.
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PENALTIES, ARE PROVIDED

Section 116 provides penalties for
fraudulent acts committed by re-
cipients or others. Violation is a
misdemeanor punishable up to $500
or imprisonment for not more than
three months, or both.
There is appropriated a sufficient
sum for the unexpired portion OF
the biennial period ending June 80,
1887 out of money in the general
fund not otherwise appropriated to
defray any expenses incurred in
discharging the duties and functions
of the State Welfare Department
and for the purpose of securing
such Federal funds as may be avail
able for any welfare services
enumerated in the act. Money re-
ceived from the Federal government
is made available and all money ap-
propriated for use of the county
agencies is made available to the
county departments.
Persons now receiving old-age
or other types of assistance con-
tinue to receive such assistance
without further action on their
part.
Declaring an emergency exists, the
act provides it shall be effective i'm
mediately upon passage.
Short title of the act is defined
In Section 127 as THE Welfare Act
of 1885,
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Section l deals with defini-
tions.
Section 2 creates a State Depart
ment of Public Welfare to be ad-
ministered by a State Board of Pub
lie Welfare.
Section 3 provides that the board
shall consist Of five members to be
appointed by the Governor, not
more than three to be members of
the same political party. Members
shall have a recognized interest in
and knowledge OF the problems of
public welfare. Their terms shall
be staggered, one to be appointed
for one year: one for two years; one
for three years, and two for four
years. Thereafter, all appoint
ments are to be for four years.
Compensation shall be $500 year
with an allowance for travelling and
other necessary expenses.
The board shall elect president
and vice president and meet at
least once each month, annually in
October.
Section 4 defines the board's S
duties. With the advice and con-
sent of the Governor it shall ap-
point an administrator to serve at
its pleasure. The administrator,
whose salary shall be fixed by the
Governor at not to exceed $4,000 an
nually, shall be the secretary and
executive officer of the board under
bond.
In addition, the board shall name
investigators or boards of review to
hold hearings for any applicants or
recipients who deem themselves
aggrieved; adopt rules and regula-
tions for the government of the de-
partment; classify the service and
fix standards and salary schedules
for the personnel.
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DEPUTIES TO ASSIST

The Attorney General is author
lied at the request of the board to
designate deputies to assist in the
administration of the act, their SAL
aries To be a charge against the
board during their period of service
for the board
Section creates the following
divisions within the department:
Public Assistance, Children's, Medi-
cal Care and Correction.
The board may create other di-
visions, if necessary. Subject to ap-
proval by the board, the admins
traitor is authorized to allocate duties
to the divisions.
Under Section 9, dealing with
duties Of the divisions, the public
assistance division shall have charge
of old-age assistance, assistance to
dependent children and 10 the blind,
and supervision of the Board of In
Custrial Aid for the Blind.
The children's division shall have
charge of all child welfare services,
including supervision of the Sol
diers' and Sailors Children's Home
School for the Deaf, School f5T the
Blind, Boys School and Girls
School.
The division Of medical care
shall have charge of the super
vision of benevolent institutions
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CIVIL ACTION PERMITTED

An interest penalty of l per cent
a month may be assessed for failure
to pay fund contributions when cue
collection may be made after due
notice through civil action bv the
attorney general.
The employe is protected in the
bill from being forced by his en-
ployer to share part of the latter's
burden. No employe may waive anv
OF his rights under the act nor NAV
ne pay part of the employers con-
trlbutions. Severe fine and impris-
onment penalties are fixed. Similar
penalties are fixed for false state
ment or misrepresentation in board
actions.
Collection of the unemployment
compensation contributions are to
be made through the existing gross
income tax division for which more
adequate quarters must be obtained
The state measure is contingent
upon constitutionality of the Federal
act being upheld.
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MERIT PLAN INCLUDED

The so-called merit plan" be-
comes effective Jan. l, 1910, and the
employer contributions are deter
minable by the amount of balance
in the reserve account. If the &C
count is not normal, the levy con-
tinues at IL per cent. If it is
normal, the employer is to pay:
Ca Two per cent if the reserve
account balance is 71h per cent, but
less than 10 per cent of the totaI
pay roll of the preceding calendar
year.
(b) One per cent if the balance is
10 per cent, but less than 1917 pei
cent of the preceding calendar yeal
pay roll.
Co Cease if the balance is 1917
per cent of the preceding calendar
year pay roll.
The levy may reach 4 per cent if
it has been necessary to make trans
fers from the pool account to the
reserve account in any year to offset
negative balances.
Employe contributions are to start
in 1887. They are so per cent of the
amount required of employers sub
ject to limitation of l per cent
maximum.
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AID FOR NEEDY BLIND

Under Section so the state shall
reimburse each district to the ex-
tent of so per cent of the amount
expended for assistance to aged per-
sons. Forty per cent of sums re-
ceived from the Federal government
is to be paid to the counties.
Section 81 is concerned with re-
endorsement procedure. REIN
bursements to the county districts
shall be made monthly. Provision
is made for refunds to the United
States of amounts recovered from
estates and otherwise.
Sections So to 10 inclusive deal
with administration of the act in
reference to the needy blind.
Assistance shall not exceed $50
month, exclusive of funeral eX-
penses, temporary medical and sur
gical assistance and hospital eX-
penses, to any blind person who
meets the residence and economic
requirements, which are the same
as for those of the aged needy.
Males of 81 and females of 18 are
eligible if their eyesight was lost
while resident OF the state. Solic-
iting of aims is forbidden.
Examination must be by an oph-
thalmologist or eye specialist who
shall be a physician licensed to
practice medicine who has been
designated by the state department
to make such examinations. Fees
shall be fixed by the state depart
ment.
Provision also is made for recov-
cry during the lifetime or after
death of a recipient if the applicant
or his estate becomes possessed of
any property or if it develops that
a recipient was possessed of prop
erty or income in excess of the
amount reported under the act.
Application for blind assistance
shall be to. the county departments.
Methods of providing for assistance
to dependent children are provided
in Sections II to 80 inclusive.
A dependent child is entitled to
assistance if resident of the state
for at least one year preceding ap-
pllcation, Or was born in the state
within a year of the application,
and whose mother has resided in
the state for period of at least
one year Immediately preceding the
birth of such child. The child must
be living in a suitable family home
conforming to the standards of care
and health fixed by state laws and
the rules of the department.
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! tending and improving, especially in
rural areas and in localities where
acute economic distress has been
suffered. services for locating Grip
pied children and for providing med
ical, surgical, corrective and other
services and care and facilities for
| diagnosis, disqualification and after
care for children who are crippled
or who are suffering from conditions
which lead to crippling.
The State Health Board shall ap-
point a representative, acceptable
to the state welfare department., who
shall assist in carrying out the pro-
visions of the law in respect to Grip
pied children. Such board represen-
tative shall be compensated by the
welfare department.
Crippled children in need of hos
pitalization may be placed in any
public or private hospital or in James
Whitcomb Riley Hospital. While
such child is in Riley Hospital he
shall be exclusively under the juris-
diction of Riley Hospital authorities
until released.
All expenses shall be paid by the
county subject to ALLEGATION by the
state funds of Federal aid on the
basis of ascertained need.
Sections go to 81 deal with general
provisions. Section "a restates the
liability of persons to support his
parent or parents, child or spouse.
No person by reason of his age
who is not receiving old-age assist
ance shall be deprived of receiving
other public relief or care.
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DIRECTORS ARE BONDED

The division of corrections is to
have charge of all correctional
activities except those dealing with
children.
Each director and his assistant
is to be bonded.
Section 10 authorizes the board to
grant paroles on recommendation
of the board of trustees of the vari-
Gus penal and correctional institu-
tions. Parole agents shall be ap-
pointed by the board.
Section IL transfers the rights,
powers and duties of the Board Of
State Charities and the Department
of Public Welfare to the new well
fare department.
Likewise the rights, powers and
duties of the Governor, the board Of
trustees and the superintendent or
wardens of corrective or benevolent
institutions in respect to transfer
of wards or inmates are transferred
TO the welfare department.
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FINANCIAL SCHEDULE SET

Financial matters are dealt with
in Sections SO to 112, inclusive. A
welfare fund is created in each
county. This shall consist of the
county's share to be raised by gen.
eral tax and by grants in aid from
the state and Federal government
Budgets shall be compiled in July
by the county director, approved by
the county and state departments
and levied by the County Councils
The County Council is authorized
to make additional appropriations
County Commissioners may borrow
sums, if necessary.
In the event the County Council
or County Tax Board makes reduc-
tions in the welfare budget which,
in the opinion of the state or coun-
ty welfare departments would jeo-
pardize proper enforcement of the
act, the state or county depart
ments may appeal to the State Tax
Board.
In it's discretion the County
Council may authorize issuance of
serial bonds to finance operations of
the county department in any year
in which it appears appropriations
are inadequate.
The rest of the bill, Sections 113
to 1870, inclusive, deals with miscel-
laneous provisions. County Auditors
are directed to keep records and
make reports relating to the county
welfare funds.
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! ployment" offered or procured fol
| him.
Benefits may not be denied, how
ever, If the position offered is va
cant due directly to strike, lock
out or labor dispute or if the hours
wages and conditions of the work
offered are substantially less favor
able to the individual than those
prevailing for similar work in the
community.
The individual may not be re-
CURED to join a company union or
required to refrain from joining.
or made to resign from, a bona fide
labor organization.
The bill sets up machinery for
appeal of denied claims.
Provision is made for investment
OF compensation fund moneys. Nc
employe may be charged fees for
representation in state board ac-
tions
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DISTRICT BOARD NAMED

Franklin and Union; Lagrange
and Steuben; Jasper and Newton;
Benton and Warren; Jennings and
Scott; Pulaski and Starke; Ohio and
Dearborn; Monroe and Owen;
Crawford and Harrison; Jefferson
and Switzerland; Brown and john
son; Martin and Daviess; Blackford
and Jay.
Each district shall be admins
tered by a district Board of Public
Welfare. Counties, other than those
enumerated, have the right to COM
bine into welfare districts with the
approval of the state board.
County and district boards are de-
fined in Section 10.
A county board shall have five
members appointed by the Circuit
Judge. At least two shall be women,
not more than three of the same
political faith, and they shall have
been residents for at least two years
prior to the date of the appoint
ment and have recognized interest
and knowledge of welfare problems.
Tenure is the same as for the state
board.
District boards also shall have five
members of the same qualifications.
Three are to be named by the Cir
cult Judge in the county having the
largest population; two by the Cir
cult Judge of lesser population. In
the larger county not more than two
shall be of the same political party;
at least one shall be woman. In
the smaller both shall not be men,
bers of the same party and one must
be a woman.
Compensation ranges from 500
yearly in counties or districts of less
than $4,000 population to $500 an
nualy in districts or counties of
more than 100000.
Duties of the county and district
board are defined in Section 20. The
boards shall name district directors
on merit basis. Directors shall be
executive officers of the board and
act as secretary.
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SIS FUNERAL EXPENSES

Section 40 authorizes a sum not to
exceed S75 for funeral expenses of
any recipient.
No sum paid for assistance is as
sign. bic nor subject to legal process
under Section Al and under Section
42 any person who feels himself ag-
grieved is given the right to appeal
to the state department.
Section 43 provides for periodic
reconsideration and changes in the
amount of assistance and under Sec
ton A county departments are re-
quired to obtain agreements from
applicants to reimburse the state
and county if ultimately able to do
so. The applicant shall assign as
collateral security such part of his
personal property as the county de-
partment shall require.
Section is authorizes transfer of
an applicants property. if any, to
the county department, such prop
erty to be managed by the depart
ment for the benefit of the recipient.
Sections 46, 47 and 4S deal with
recovery of property or funds either
during the lifetime or after death of
recipient. Review by the state
department is provided.
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Public Health
Bill Explained

The state act on public health is
an enaollng measure which permits
the state to receive approximately
Sl3l 900 in Federal funds, part bv
matching and part as ALLEGATIONS
equal to money already being spent.
Extremely brief, the act is calcu-
lated to:
Extend and improve, in co-opera-
ton with the children's bureau of
the United States Department of
LABOR, the health of mothers and
children, especially in rural areas
and areas suffering from economic
distress; provide for extension and
Improvement of maternal and child
health services administered by the
respective municipal corporations
and health districts of the state: de-
Velop demonstration services in needy
areas and among groups of special
need, and cooperate with medical.
dental, nursing, educational and
welfare organizations of the state.
The state health division is made
the administration agency for the
act. The health department is to
develop the organization of local
health movements, which probably
will be established on county unit
basis.
To permit the state Health Board
to cooperate with the various de-
partments and bureaus of the Fed
eral government, the state budget
committee is authorized by the bill
to reallocate the health boards un-
expended funds for the biennium
ending June 30, 1887. The realloca-
ton is to be on the health boards
recommendation.
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Sis A MONTH LIMIT

Assistance shall not exceed $13 a
month and if there are other de-
pendent children, not to exceed $12
a month for each additional child.
Application must be made to coun-
ty departments on the verified af-
fidavit of parent or guardian.
Appeal is provided for as we'll as
periodic reconsideration and changes
IN the amount of assistance.
The state shall reimburse each
county so per cent of amounts ex-
pended for assistance to depend
ent children and in addition shall
distribute proportionately &c per
cent of Federal moneys received fer
this purpose.
Sections S3 to IS deal with child
welfare services.
The state department is to Coop
crate with the county departments
and the children's bureau of the
United States Department of Labor
in establishing, extending and
strengthening, especially in rural
areas, public welfare services for
the protection and care of homeless,
dependent and neglected children
and children in danger of becoming
delinquent.
The department is authorized to
develop state services for the en-
couragement and assistance of ade-
quate methods of community child
welfare organizations in areas pre-
dominantly rural and in other areas
Of special need; also to extend and
develop child welfare agencies in
such areas.
Expenses shall be paid by the
county subject to ALLEGATIONS from
the state based upon need out of
Federal funds.
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ELIGIBILITY SET OUT

To be eligible director must
have lived in the district at least
two years prior to appointment.
Compensation of directors ranges
from $1,000 yearly in counties OF
district of less than $4,000 to $4,000
yearly in counties of more than 217,-
600 population.
Directors also are entitled to
necessary expenses and must furnish
bonds for faithful discharge of du-
ties.
Compensation of the board. di-
rector and his assistants is a charge
against the district.
The county department under
Section 81 is charged with the ad-
ministration of assistance to de-
pendent children, old-age assistance
assistance to persons otherwise
handicapped. care and treatment of
dependent, neglected, delinquent and
handicapped children and such 9TH
er duties as may be delegated by
the state board.
The director and his assistants
are to be agents of the courts in
carrying out provisions of the act.
Under Section % the rights, pow
ers and duties of the board of
children's guardians are transferred
to the various county departments
and the Board of Children's Guar
dians is abolished.
Section % authorizes the county
departments to prosecute and de-
fend suits.
The county director with the ap-
proval of the county board is au-
thorized under Section "a to ap-
point assistants and fix their COM
pensation
Under Section 25 no claims for an
allowance, award or assistance ap-