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Category BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE PUBLIC WELFARE Cases, Expenditures, Reimbursements and Net Cost Reimbursements Cases Federal -State Net Cost Aided Expended And Individuals to Town General Relief 16 $ 7,854.74 $ 968.26 $ 6,886.48 Old Age Assistance 63 44,077.12 39,467.75 4,609.37 Aid to Families with Dependent Children 34 53,760.12 38,461.22 15,298.90 Disability Assistance 7 5,650.81 3,958.08 1,692.73 Medical Assistance 246 217,465.73 173,695.54 43,770.19 Administration 5 29,730.11 22,352.99 7,377.12 $358,538.63 $278,903.84 $79,634.79 General relief accounts for two percent of the caseload and is taken care of by the state and local funds. In October, 1967 the legislature voted to have the state assume all expenses of as- sistance and to abolish local offices and establish fifty community centers around the state. This is to go into effect July 1, 1968. It is not known when the local offices will close and when the community centers begin to operate. Medical assistance category has advanced rapidly this past year and is under much discussion as to the availability of funds to carry on in its present form. Many cities and towns have had to ask for additional appropriations to carry them through the year and the budgets for the coming year show a great increase over the present year. Most of the ex- pense is for dental and medical care for children under twenty -one years of age whose parents, according to the exemptions set forth by the state department of public welfare, are unable to care for these expenses. Two hundred and thirty -four applications were made to this office from June 1, 1967 through November, 1967, with approximately fifty percent of them being eligible. Old age assistance is designed to assist needy persons sixty -five years of age and over who have resided in the commonwealth for one year immediately preceding the date of application, to remain in their own homes or the homes of children or others and care for their own needs. Federal pays $50.00 per case per month, the state pays seventy per- cent of the balance and the town pays the remainder. Disability assistance is designed to care for persons from eighteen years of age to sixty -five years of age who are disabled and who may remain disabled for six months or more. The state medical review team has the final say as to the eligibility of the dis- abled person. Federal pays $50.00 per case per month, the town pays twenty -five percent and the state pays the remainder, if any. Aid to families with dependent children is designed for the care and support of children who have been deprived of parental support by reason of the unemployment of the bread- winner or by the death, illness, divorce, separation or desertion of the parent or parents. Primarily, it is designed to keep the children in the home rather than to be placed in an institution. Federal pays $22.00 per eligible person per month, the state pays thirty- 31