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Mind nr disabled with maximum monthly incomes id less than $209.40. SSI recipients cannot have more than SI,>0i) in assets, excluding house and lot, home furnishings and one automobile.1
Mrs Buntin said she alloted SbOO for protective services lor children, primarily to cover counseling and thcrapv fees at the H a p p a h a n n o c k Mental Health ( i:me Purchased services also include $3,900 under payments to specified disabled individuals for one
client in an^partment living program lot retarded persons
In iespouse to a question Irom welfare board chairman Dick Latham. Mrs. Buntin explained that companion and nutrition services for adults and services to specified disabled individuals were not state-mandated programs. I his year, she said, the state asked local vveltarc agencies to mandate specified programs. These local mandates v.ill be the basis tot next war's Title 20 allocations, she added.
"1 designated companion services, protective services lor adults and services to specified disable individuals as mandated." Mrs. Buntin said "With the percentage of aged in this county. the thrust of adult services should be t >wards the elderly, towards keeping them out of nursing homes and in the community."
20 Per Cent Increase
In Assistances
While the appropriation
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47.4%