Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 January 1949 — Jasper County Pays $172,025 In Public Aid [ARTICLE]

Jasper County Pays $172,025 In Public Aid

1947 Statistics Show County Is Over State Wide Average In Welfare Expenditures for public aid in Jasper county amounted to $172,025 or $11.95 per capita in 1947, as compared to a state-wide average of $10.24 per capita, a study made by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce showed today. The State Chamber study, which will be included in the 1949 edition of its Indiana Tax and Social Security Manual, to be published in January, covers each county’s public welfare department expenditures, township relief costs and net operating expenses of county homes and orphanages. Statistics for Jasper county for the month of June, 1948, show that 219 persons received a total of $8,094 in old age assistance. The average individual monthly payment was $36.96 as compared

to the statewide average of $32.96. Under the program of aid to dependent children in the same month, 114 children of 32 families received an average montlhy payment of $20.03 to make a total of $2,283. The state-wide average individual payment was $20.57 per child. Grants totaling $372 were made in June to 10 recipients of blind assistance, or an average of $37.17 per person. The average individual payment per month in the state was $35.09. Total expenditures in the entire state for county public welfare programs, township relief and county homes and orphanages in 1947 were $35,104,015. (Figures for 1948 not available yet).