The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1948-09-23

! Aged, informed the welfare dire
states $4,000 recipients would
checks to be mailed during Octo
The increase will result fl
special session of the general as
sembly which upon recommended
ton of Gov. Thomas j. Herbert
voted in July to raise the Ohio
ceiling on maximum old-age as
sistance payments from $50 to $55
month.
The state action followed con-
gressional legislation which raised
the ceiling on federal participa-
ton from $45 to $50 in financing
the old-age assistance program.
The federal legislation becomes
effective October /. Even before
the raise in federal financial par
ticipation, Ohio already was pay
ing a ceiling of $5 over that par
ticipated in by the federal 60
vernment.
Mr.. Babb said that since the
state and federal legislation was
enacted several have been re-
viewing each of the 1890 bud
gets involving recipients of aid
for the aged.
The checking of individual
budgets has been completed by
county staffs and is now in the
final stages of review by the CEN
trail office staff. This work, he
said, should be completed within
4 the next two weeks.
Although the review is still in
complete, Mr.. Babb said that
4 from the study made thus far, it
was indicated that the increase
in the new monthly grants start
ing with next month would aver
average around $3.50 to $4.75,
z bringing the Ohio monthly aver
age grant for October to about
$46.75, one of the highest in the
country.
The division chief warned that
not every recipient receiving aid
would be given an increase since
state and federal regulations re-
quire that increase be made in
accordance with need shown by
individual budgets.
'There has been an erroneous
impression circulated that every
recipient would receive flat S.
monthly because federal and
state legislation advanced the
4 ceilings on aid payments by that
amount" Mr.. Babb said.
"Such a procedure would be
in violation of federal and state
regulations inasmuch as every
in crease must be made only after
re-study of individual budgets.
TN a few cases it was found
that because supplementary
means existed, no increases were
necessary. In the majority of
cases, however, increased allow
i, ances were granted for food and
clothing items with the overall
statewide increases expected to
3 average close to the extra S. per
mitted by the new federal and
\ state legislation" Mr.. Babb said
On the basis of cases studied
thus far, the division chief said
that the increased allowances for
October would hike the states
!, aid for the aged bill by about
$550,000 for the month.
u During August, the state paid
123,l8l recipients a total of S.
l63,408 in aid payments. When
the new payments become effec-
,..tive October l, the states total
payments to recipients of old-age
!, assistance is expected to run
about $5,700,000 for the month.
First checks containing October
payments will be placed in the
: mails around October 4, checks
|. being mailed alphabetically ac-
cording to counties. Last of the
checks containing the new grants
are expected to be in the mail
during the week of October IS.
Mr.. Babb said that because of
the tremendous volume of work
connected in recomputing each of
the budgets, it was possible that
in some instances checks might
be delayed several days during
the October mailings.
I'VE have added extra tempor-
s-ary staff which has been working
Z day and night in order to deter
mine the recomputation of bud
gets and complete the job as near
schedule as possible for the Oc-
tober mailings., The volume of
work connected with new budget
studies has been about ten times
the amount of work compared
with normal months work in
getting out aid for the aged certi-
ficates," Mr.. Babb said.