SOCIAL SECURITY AT NEW YORK KEEPS FAMILIES TOGETHER

Grey River Argus, 21 May 1947, Page 5

SOCIAL SECURITY AT NEW YORK KEEPS FAMILIES TOGETHER

(Rec. 6.30). NEW YORK, May 19. A 35-years-old father, who is on city relief, appeared in the Domestic Relations Court to-day to explain why one of his children was not at school. The father revealed that the Department of Welfare had provided his family with a hotel suite costing 315 dollars per month. It is just off Fifth Avenue, and it has a maid service. The father also received an average of 128 dollars weekly from the Department of Welfare for food, clothing and laundry for himself, his wife, and five children. They were installed in the hotel suite last November. They have been there ever since. A spokesman of the Department of Welfare said that because of a victual impossibility of obtaining lower) or medium-cost housing, his Department had several similar cases. The only alternative would be to break up the families and to lodge the parents and the children in separate shelters.