Departmental process
Sir, — Chequeless, perturbed, 1 rang the Welfare. This week’s dole? Oh, I'd been terminated. No return of income, July. But . . . but . . . Anyhow, I said, could I do another? They supposed I could try. Into the Square. A Jong wait. A computer check ... a duplicate form. Completed in 30 seconds. A long wait to return it. Would I now wait? I waited some more. Out came a girl with the duplicate. And also the original, the one “never received.” Yes, this $33.30 “other income,” was it a regular job? No? Okay, that was all they wanted to Jtnow. Am I favourably impressed by the department at junior and intermediate levels of responsibility? I am not. Social welfare? Social warfare, says the S.U.P., and I must agree: “If you think the system is working, talk to someone who isn’t.” — Yours, etc., KEN MCALLISTER. August 18, 1979.
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