To the editor: I was shocked to read that L.A. County’s General Relief payment to destitute individuals is still a scant $221 per month. Equally shocking is that this monthly amount has not been ...
Marin County has adjusted requirements for receiving financial assistance in an effort to ease access to help. State law mandates that counties provide general relief or general assistance to indigent ...
As Mormon women gathered for a general Relief Society meeting in September 1995, no one was expecting to hear then-President Gordon B. Hinckley announce what he said was a latter-day "proclamation," a ...
The Johnson County Social Services Department is hiring a general assistance specialist to work with the General Assistance Program, as the county sees an increased need for the service. The new ...
The Relief Society General Presidency taught a class as part of BYU Education Week on Monday, Aug. 19. Leaders spoke about the power of the Relief Society organization. (Elsa Bray) The Relief Society ...
In the past year, Riverside County increased the number of people to whom it provided “general relief” by 3,900% in response to a lawsuit filed by three California social justice law firms which ...
In the early 1980s, as today, Los Angeles County residents who qualified for no other form of public assistance were given a few hundred dollars in monthly last-resort payments known as general relief ...
Relief Society manuals and magazines that date from 1932 through today will be on display in the Harold B. Lee Library's Special Collections during March to celebrate Women's History Month. (Marinda ...