Westberry Victory and Short and Long Range LDF Legal Objectives (Telegram)

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March 27, 1969

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March 27, 1969

Mr. Byron Israelson Irving Horowitz
THE NEW YORK TIMES National News Desk
c/o Evening Express-Herald Press THE NEW YORK TIMES
Portland, Maine N.Y., N.Y.

Long and short range LDF legal objectives have been met with the
Westberry victory:

Across the country, where similar maximum grant suits are now
pending in ten other states, it now becomes likely that similar decisions
will be obtained.

. The part of the decision invalidating the maximum grant prohibits
the state from discriminating between large and small families in
distributing AFDC funds. Thus the decision means that 52 families
currently affected by the maximum grant provision will receive AFDC
benefits permitting them to live in decency and health.

If our experience proves consistent, we anticipate that states in
Which no such AFDC suits have been filed will voluntarily abandon
Maximum grant laws as their respective communities raise the issue.

The positive results, from an immediate viewpoint, are that 6,180
Maine families subject to the Maximum Budgeted Requirements Law are
now encouraged to work.

The state must now create budget allowances based on actual need
for these families rather than the artificial "maximum budgeted
requirements" of $300. :

These families will now be permitted to earn monies reflecting
the difference between their actual need and their AFDC grant before
suffering a reduction of the grant.

Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
10 Columbus Circle, New York City ane.

NOTE: The LDF was established by the NAACP, but we are a completely
separate and distinct organization, even though the initials are retained
in our name.

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