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(From page 1) Robert Nixon, community and social services minister Charles Beer and municipal af- fairs minister John Sweeney. Social services chairman Diane Hamre admitted to coun- cil that the region is not in an emergency situation at present. "We are not broke today, so we are not yet in an emergency situation," she said. "But we are in a tight spot because we had projected a better economy than we are havingnow." The province "must come up with its share," Mrs. Hamre said. "That's why we must go now to Toronto and not wait un- til perhaps November." The summer is traditionally a season of high employment but an unexpected depressed construction season has left many skilled workers out of a job and seeking assistance, Mrs. Hamre said. Well- established businesspersons are also closing up shop and looking toward the region for fi- nancial support. Durham's health and social service departmeni handled 6,197 caseloads last month -- a tremendous increase of 51.9 per cent since June 1989. Over 10,400 Durham resi- dents lived on welfare in June, including an estimated 3,200 children. Welfare payments rose 106 per cent from $1.5-million in June of last year to $3.1 million this June. The region's social service de- partment randomly examined 645 welfare applications in the first two weeks of July. Through its study, staff de- ducted that one-third of the ap- plicants had never sought as- sistance within the province of Ontario before. A computer set- up allows staff to find out who has received assistance, what municipality they received it from, and for how long. Approximately 15 per cent of Welfare cases up in Durham Statistics released at an emergency regional council meeting Thursday show that Durham is facing hard econom- ictimes. An estimated 2.7 per cent of the region's population is living on welfare. Compared to 13 sur- rounding municipalities, Dur- ham has the fifth highest per- centage of residents relying on welfare to survive. At four per cent, Peterbo- rought has the highest percent- age of residents on welfare. Others municipalities re- cording high numbers are Windsor (3.1 per cent), Metro- politan Toronto (3 per cent), and Hamilton-Wentworth (3 percent). Out of the 13 municipalities, Peel had the lowest percentage (0.6) of residents on welfare, fol- lowed by Halton (0.9), York Ly and Northhumberland 1.0). Durham has the third high- est caseload increase over a one-year period. Durham's social service de- artment handled 6,197 case- oads last month, an increase of 51.9 per cent since June of last year. . Peel had the highest caseload increase at 56 per cent, while Kingston followed close behind with 54.6 per cent. * Waterloo's caseload in- creased 47.6 per cent, Halton 39.9 per cent, York 36.8 per cent, and Hamilton-Wentworth 33.7 percent. Metropolitan Toronto record-. ed the least increase in case- loads with only a 21.5 per cent climboverlast year. Ottawa-Carleton rose 26.1 per cent, Peterborough 27.0 per cent, Northumberland 27.5 per cent, Windsor 27.9 per cent, and Niagara 32.8 per cent. Please recycle | this newspaper COMPARE THE RATE! i 165 QUEEN ST, PORT PERRY 985-8435 the applicants are new resi- dents to the region. "Durham 1s encouragin them (the new residents) an pointing them back in the direc- tion of their home municipali- ty," Mrs. Hamre said. Scugog councillor Yvonne Christie asked Mrs. Hamre and health and social service com- missioner Garry Cubitt if peo- ple were abusing the system. "Yes, there are a few that will take advantage of the system," the commissioner said, adding that he doesn't feel it is a big problem in Durham. 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