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Old-Age Assistance
No “Gravy Train”
(Fourth in a serie* of articles by Mrs. Elizabeth Buntin, on old-age assistance in Virginia).
Last time I told you about two actual (*ase histories. There were two old sisters who received $11 apiece and an aged man and his wife who got $37 a month to live on. In both cases the needy old people were getting less than they needed because their welfare department did not have enough money. The most we can say for insufficient funds is that they are distributed fairly by reducing all grants alike. But it is a shame to take money away from needy old people in order to get enough to give somebody else. If generous budgets were madeout on each case, it wouldn’t hurt to cut them some, but the fact is that the cost figures used are figured at the very minimum that a person can live on. Do you know that if 100 per cent of needs were met, the average old age assistance grant would be something less than $24.00? I ask you, “Is
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