More Help On Way - More than 500 people in Butler County will receive five dollar increases in their November old age assistance checks as a result of a new Ohio General Assembly law upping the maximum grant for aid to the aged from $60 to $65 a month. Average raise in Butler County will be $3.03 with almost all the 1,700 aged who are on the county rolls getting at least one extra dollar, Marion W. McIntyre, state chief of the Aid for the Aged division, reveals. At the same time, Mrs. Mary Lloyd Lane manager of the U.S. Hamilton field office, reports that many people eligible for social security payments have failed to apply. Another change in the Ohio old age law is the maximum amount of income that a person can receive and still be eligible for assistance. In the past, the maximum figure was $80 monthly or $720 yearly. Effective today the new high is $80 a month or $960 a year...

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