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Al 4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 17, 1998

Army says relief agencies

WORRIES ABOUT an in-
creasing demand for help
means social — services
groups and government
ministries should work more
closely together, says a Sal-
vation Army official here.

Christine Simmons of the
Army’s family services of-
fice says a co-ordinaled ef-
fort will help ensure as-
sistance is spread as far as
possible and will reduce the
chances of fraud.

‘«What there needs to be is
communication,’ said Sim-
mons of churches and other
groups cither putting togeth-
er food banks of their own
or considering other ways of
helping people caughi in the
current economic downtum.

“Tm just worried that
people will go from place to
place, taking more than their
share,’” she said.

Simmons added that a
more co-ordinated — effort
will help in case the econo-
my goes into a pronounced

Welfare

FEWER PEOPLE are col-
lecting welfare here than
last year, indicate statistics
from ithe provincial human
resources ministry.

Caseloads dropped by 2
per cent from 1,422 in April
1997 to 1,393 in April 1998,

And the number of indi-
viduals collecting benefits
declined by 3.2 per cent
from 2,657 to 2,573 over the
same period.

But those same statistics
indicate the number of dis-
abled persons collecting
jumped from 188 to 244 and
the number of people under
the age of 19 collecting in-
creased from 15 to 26.

As well, the number of
couples collecting rose from
162 to 188.

Reductions were reported
in single men and single
women categories.

Human resources ministry
official Marissa Adair said

province wide, the number
of people collecting social

assistance declined by 7.2
per cent over the same peri-
od.

She felt some of the
decrease may be due to
tightened eligibility regula-
tions.

The requirement that those
considered employable un-
dergo job training or take
educational courses in order
to collect bencfits may also
be a factor, Adair added.

“B.C. has réjected the
slash and burn approach of
other governments in reduc-

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for agencies to be ready
rather than to react.

As things stand now, Sim-
mons is sceing more new
people ask for assistance
each month.

“We have five to 10 new
cases each month,’’ she
said.

“Things are pretty rough
out there for peaple who,
would have had some type
of work by now,” Simmons
added,

Simmons isu’t suggesting
yet that the fall and winter
food bank run by area chur-
ches be revived for the sum-
mer,

“For one thing we don’t
have enough money right
now and the winter months
are rougher with there also
being a demand for winter
clothing,’ she said.

Salvation Army officials
have already met with the
human resources ministry
here.

cials say they don’t specifi-
cally refer people to the Sal-
vation Army for help, they
do encourage them to first
seek help from family,
friends and other sources,

That’s to ensure that the
ministry’s budget for emer-
gency crisis grants goes to
those who have not other
allemative, says official
Marissa Adair.

And while the ministry
says it will co-operate, it can
only go so far in co-
operating with other groups

to prevent abuse, says
Adair.

The ministry does
maintain extensive com-

puter connections with other
agencies to ensure there is
no abuse of its programs,
but Adair says the ministry
has to abide by con-
fidentiality rules and can’t
compare names with other
agencies.

‘"We generate information

Christine
Simmons

fo manage our own caseload
so that people aren’t getting

an income they shouldn't be:

while on social assistance,
she said.

“To exchange information .

with agencies such as the
Salvation Army isn't feasi-
ble as far as confidentiality
goes.”' ,

caseload has dropped

ing the welfare case load,”’
she said.

While statistics indicate
there’s been a slight drop in
welfare reciplents, local ser-
vice groups are reporting an
increased demand for help.

Christine Simmons of the
Salvation Army’s family
services section said 21 of
58 requests for food or other
assistance in May came
from people who hadn't ap-

proached the Anny before.

‘Some of the cases are
from people passing through
or from those who had just
got to town and are getting
set up and spent their money
on an apartment and don’t
have any left for food,’’ she
said.

Roseanne Pierce of the
Terrace Anti Poverty Group
Society, which runs an
emergency food service,

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