Three month welfare limits

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The California Supreme Court gave a green light today for Alameda County to restrict general assistance welfare payments to able-bodied adults to only three months within each year.

The court, in an order issued in San Francisco, declined to hear six welfare recipients' appeal of a September ruling by the Court of Appeal upholding the county's right to impose the limits.

Baldovinos said the cuts are "very, very difficult to do" but said, "The financial situation of the county is getting worse."

General assistance payments in Alameda County are currently a maximum of $336 per month for a single individual.

Baldovinos said about 10,000 people in the county are currently receiving the assistance and that the three-month limit will apply to about 70 to 75 percent of them.

KGO AM 810 Newstalk Radio, San Francisco.

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