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In a step to improve the odds on alcoholic treatment programs achieving success, the Rappahannock Welfare Board approved a maximum $25 per month personal care allowance under the county's general relief plan for persons undergoing institutional treatment for alcoholism.
At the December 15 board meeting, social services director Elizabeth Buntin explained that the cost of the actual treatment for welfare clients is paid with Title 20 federal funds. She added, however, that Title 20 doesn’t provide money for personal needs to indigents undergoing alcoholic treatment.
Alcoholics receiving treatment need to maintain their self-respect, she said, and would be helped by an allowance for such items as razor blades, cigarettes, cokes—“all the things they need to do so they can be like everybody else.
"We’d also like to provide maintenance for two months' after they come out of treatment for alcoholism." Mrs. Buntin continued. “If they have no money for room and board at some decent place, they often slip back” into drinking, she said. However, Mrs. Buntin noted that maintenance payments were not possible under the general relief program, according to the state welfare office.
She explained that it would be necessary to provide for institutional care under
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