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HARRY L. HOPKINS, ADMINISTRATOR
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Preface
This bulletin is one of a series intended to present in
if? abstract form the public welfare provisions of the laws of each of
" the States.
ii
a; The purpose of these bulletins is to give a brief review
’3 of the provisions for public assistance under the laws of the several
r
if Jurisdictions, and of the administrative agencies set up by law with
é. reference thereto. A chart showing the organizational relationships
3 of the administrative agencies is included.
. f" The possibility of error in attempting with a limited staff
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:3 and in a limited time to assemble and digest the formidable mass of
£5 material incident to such a study is frankly recognized. The coopera-
Cg tion of those who have occasion to use these digests in reporting any
2; errors of omission or commission noted, or in suggesting improvement
>§ in form or content, is invited and will be greatly appreciated.
ii Meanwhile it is hoped that those interested in considering
: the reorganization or strengthening of public welfare services in the
.E several States may find the digests of practical value.
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ABSTRACT OF WELFARE LAWS OF STATE OF WISCONSIN
Public Welfare Provisions Page
General Poor Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4701
Emergency Relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4704
Care of Dependent Children in Their Own Homes . . . . . . . . . . 4706
Care of Dependent Children (Institutions and Agencies) . . . . . 4709
Blind Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4711
Old Age Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4715
Veterans' Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4716
Administrative Provisions
Public Welfare Department of the Industrial Commission . . . . . 4721
State Pension Department of the Industrial Commission . . . . . . 4725
. StateBoardofControl.....................4728
State, Central and Northern Hospitals for the Insane . . . . . 4738
Homes for the Feeble—Minded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4740
_ State Tuberculosis Sanatoria and Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4743
Schools for the Blind and Deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4745
Workshop for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4745
Industrial Schools for Girls and Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4748
State Reformatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4750
Industrial Home for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4750
Warden of State Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4752
State Public School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4755
State Field Agency for Adult Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4758
Grand Army Home for Veterans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4760
Juvenile Court. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4764
County Board of Supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4771
County Department of Public Welfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4771
County Pension Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4772
County Soldiers' Relief Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4774
Chart Showing Public Welfare Agencies

 Wisconsin 4701
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GENERAL POOR RELIEF
(a) Description of class

Direct relief: Poor and indigent persons lawfully settled
in any town, village or city. 1/ Temporary aid and decent burial given
transient peupers. 2/

County Poor Homes: Any pauper who, by reason of sickness,
infirmity, decrepitude, old-age, drunkenness or pregnancy is likely to
become a public charge; or who is an inebriate or a drug addict; or who
lives in a state of squalor or filth likely to induce disease. 9/

Counpy Hospitals: Indigent persons who are afflicted with
any disease, malady, deformity or ailment, which can probably be reme-
died, or which can be advantageously treated by proper medical, dental
or surgical care. 5]

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Direct relief: No provision.

County Poor Homes: Judge of any court of record, upon
petition of officer charged with care of poor, may commit pauper to

. county home for a definite period of not less than 60 days, or for an
indefinite time. No person may be conmutted without having an oppor-
tunity to be heard in person or by someone in his behalf. 5/

County Hospitals: In counties of less than 250,000 the
boards of trustees of county institutions, subject to the approval of
the State Board of Control, make rules and regulations governing
admission. 2/ In counties of 250,000 or more, the boards of trustees
of county institutions make all necessary regulations for the admission
and discharge of patients. p/

(c) Measure of responsibility
Direct relief: Form not specified by statute. Transient
peupers who are taken sick, lame or otherwise, are given temporary board,
’ maintenance, nursing, medical aid and burial. 3/ local paupers are given
emergency medical relief and hospitalization by municipalities except in
counties having 250,000 or more. 1/
___________.__________.__________________.______________________________.
1. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 49.01.
2. Ibid, Sec. 49.03, as amended by Laws (1935), Ch. 453.
3. Wisconsin Statutes (1953), Sec. 49.07, as amended by Laws (1955),
Ch. 555.
4. lisconsin Statutes (1935), See. 49.145.
5. Ibid, Sec. 49.07.
. 6. Ibid, Sec. 46.21 (20).
7. Ibid, Sec. 49.18.

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GENERAL POOR RELIEF (Cont'd) .
(c) Measure of responsibility (Cont'd)

County Poor Homes: Care at county home, if there be one,
otherwise commitment to county home of some other county. g/

Count Hos itals: Medical, dental or surgical care at county
hospital, if there be one. 97

(d) Qualifications imposed

Local 8 stem: Legal settlement (one year's residence in a
village, city or town.) £3]

The ownership of a home or an equity therein 11/ or an insur-
ance policy of the cash or loan value of $300 or less does not bar the grant-
ing of relief, in the discretion of the authorities in charge of relief, to
any person who by reason of unemployment or sickness stands in need of such
relief. 13/ Father, mother, husband, children and wife (in order named) are
liable for support. 13/ Property of indigent is chargeable for support. 14/
Property of father or widowed mother who desert child is subject to seizure
and sale at auction and proceeds used to support children. 12/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility ,

Local 8 stem: On the town, village or city. lg/ Obligation
mandatory. 117 County reimburses localities for care of paupers who have .
no legal settlement in the town, city or village where they may be. 12/
_______,._____.________________________.__._._______._____________.________.

8. Iisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 49.07, as amended by Laws (1935), Ch. 353.
9. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 49.145.
10. Ibid, Sec. 49.02 (4).
11. Ibid, Sec. 49.01.
12. Ibid, Sec. 49.025.
13. Ibid, Sec. 49.11.
14. Ibid, Sec. 49.10.
15. Ibid, Sec. 49.13. '
16. Ibid, Sec. 49.01.
The County Board of any county may, by a resolution of the majority of
all the Supervisors entitled to a seat in said Board, abolish all distinction
between county poor and town, village and city poor, and have the expense of
maintaining the poor atnunty charge; all powers and duties imposed upon towns,
villages and cities must then be exercised by the following agencies:
Counties of less than 250,000: Board of trustees of county institutions
(elected by the County Board of Supervisors) and superintendents of the
county institutions, under the supervision of the State Board of Control.
Counties of 250,000 or more: Manager of county institutions, subject to
the control of the board of trustees of county institution. Ibid, Sec. 49.15.
The counties may, by a similar vote, repeal such resolution and thereafter,
the poor of the county must be supported in the same manner as if the distinc-
tion had never been abolished. Ibid, Sec. 49.16
1'7. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 49.03, as amended by Laws (1935), Ch. 453. .

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‘I. GENERAL POOR RELIEE ‘ContVfiE
(6) Incidence ggwginencial responsibility (Cont'd)

County stgigg: On the county. 18/ Obligation mandatory. 18/
Whether or not the counties abolish the distinction between county poor
and town, village and city poor, they may erect county poor homes and
county hospitals. 19/

(r) Taxes
NO specific provisions.
- (8) Administrative agencies

Direct relief:

Local system: Town boards, village trustees or common
councils, in towns, villages and cities. 20/

County system;

Counties of less than 250,000: Board of trustees of
county institutions (elected by the County Board of Supervisors) and
superintendents Of the county institutions, under the supervision of
the State Board of Control. 21/

. Counties of 250,000 or more: Manager of county insti-
tutions, subject to the control of the board of trustees of county
- institution. 21/

County Poor Homes: Board of trustees of any county insti-
tution and superintendent of the institution,under the supervision of
the Board of Control (counties of less then 250,000) 22 or manager or
county institutions (counties or 250,000 or more). 23

County Hospitals: Board of trustees of any county institu-
tion and superintendent of the institution, under the supervision of the
State Board of Control (counties of less than 250,000) 22/ or manager of
county institutions (counties of 250,000 or more). gg/

(h) Supervisory controls
In counties of less than 250,000, the State Board of Control
has supervision of county institutions. 23/
18. See Footnote # 16 on previous page.
19. Wisconsin Statutes (1955), Sec. 49.145, 49.14.
20. Ibid, Sec. 49.01.
21. Ibid, Sec. 49.14.
. 22. Ibid, Sec. 46.18, 46.19, 46.20.
23. Ibid, Sec. 46.21.

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EMERGENCY RELIEF ‘I’
(a) Description of class
Preference for employment is given as follows: first, to
citizens of Wisconsin; second, to citizens of the United States at the
time of making application; last, to aliens who are residents of Wisconsin
‘ at the time of making application. 1/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
The Department of Public Welfare must cause to be prepared
by the various State institutions and departments approved lists of
applicants for public employment and must secure from such applicants
full information as to their industrial qualifications and submit this
information to the Department of Public Welfare. 3/
It is the duty of the Public Welfare Department to ascertain
from the various departments and State institutions tentative plans for
such extension of public works of the State as may be best adapted to
supply increased opportunities for advantageous public labor during
periods of temporary unemployment; together with estimates of amounts,
character and duration of such employment, number of employees that
could profitably be used therein, and the rate of wages and such other
information as the Department may deem necessary. 3/
(c) Measure of responsibility .
No provision.
(d) Qualifications imposed
No provision.
(9) Incidence of financial responsibility
0n the State. 5/
(f) Taxes
There is levied, to raise revenues for relief purposes, in v
addition to all other income taxes, an emergency tax, ranging from one
percent on the first $1000 of income to 7 percent on any income in excess
of $12,000, on incomes in the calendar year of 1934. Such tax became
delinquent on July 1, 1935. 5/
1. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 46-26.
2. Ibid, as amended by Executive Order #4, (December 7, 1935). ‘
3. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 46.23. as amended by Executive Order #4
(December 7, 1935).
4. Laws (1935), Ch. 15, 286. .
5. Laws, (1935), Ch. 15, Sec. 2.

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(f) Taxes (Cont'd)

There is levied a tax on transfers of property (prior to
July 1, 1937) which tax must be equal to 25 percent of the excess of
$100 of inheritance tax. §/

There is levied a one percent tax on the gross receipts
from the operation of telephone utilities during the calendar year 1934
in excess of $10,000 and not in excess of $15,000; 2 percent on receipts
over $15,000 and not in excess of $20,000; 3 percent on receipts over
$20,000. 1/

There is levied a 3 percent tax on energy sold by electric,
gas, heat and water utilities within the State during the calendar year
1934. g/

There is levied an income tax ranging from one percent on
the first $2000 of income to 7 percent on all net dividend income above
$5,000 on income of all persons in the calendar year 1933. 2/

(g) Administrative agencies
Public Welfare Department. 19/
. (h) Supervisory controls
no provision.
6. laws (1935), Ch. 15, Sec. 3.
7. Ibid, Sec. 4.
8. Ibid, Sec. 5.
9. Ibid, Sec. 6.
10. Executive Order.#4 (December 7, 1935).

 4706 Wisconsin - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
CARE or anmnm CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES .
(a) Description of class

thher: Mother or stepmother of a dependent child who is
dependent upon the public for proper support, if such mother or step—
mother is without a husband, or the wife of a husband who is incapacita—
ted for gainful work by mental or physical disability, which is likely
to continue for at least one year in the opinion of a competent
physician, or the wife of a husband who has been sentenced to a penal
institution for a period of at least one year, or the wife of a
husband who has continuously deserted her for one or more years, if
the husband has been legally charged with abandonment for a period of
one year, or a mother or stepmother who has been divorced from her
husband for a period of at least one year and has been unable through
use of the provisions of law to compel her former husband to support
the child for whom aid is sought. 3/ Any person standing in loco
parentis, if the relationship is likely to continue for at least one
year. §/ 7

Dependent child: A child under the age of 16 years, who
has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death,
continued absence from home, or physical or mental incapacity of a
parent, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grand—
mother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, step-
sister, uncle or aunt in a place of residence maintained by one or
more such relatives at his or their own home. _3/ .

(b) Procedure for determining eligibilitx
If any person has knowledge that a dependent child is
_ dependant upon the public for proper support or that the interest of

the public requires that such child be granted aid, he may bring any
such fact to the notice of a judge of the juvenile court or of a
county court of the county in which such child has a legal settlement.
After investigation and report by a professional officer or a county
children's board 1], the judge may grant aid to the person having the
care and custody of such child. §/ The person receiving aid must file
a monthly report with the judge of the juvenile or county court. fi/
Aid must not continue longer than one year without reinvestigation. 2/
1. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.33-5).
2. Ibid, Seo.6(48.33-7).
3. Ibid, Sec. 7.
4. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 48.33 (2).
5. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.33-4).
6. Ibid, Sec. 6 (48.33-8).
'7. Ibid, Sec. 6 (48.33-6).

 Wisconsin - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4707
. CARE OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN ROMS (Cont’d)
(c) Measure of responsibility

The aid granted must be sufficient to enable the person having
the care and custody of such children to care properly for them. The
amount to be granted is determined by a budget for each family, worked
out annually by the judge of the court and the County Board or a committee
designated by it, in which all possible income as wall as expenses must be
considered. Medical and dental aid may be granted to minor children, the
mother, or the incapacitated father as necessary. Burial expenses, not to
exceed $100, are allowed for burial of the child. 3/ Maternity aid is
granted for 6 months prior to and 6 months following birth of child. 3/

(d) Qualifications imposed

MotherI stepmotherI person in loco oarentis: Must be a fit
and proper person to have the custody of the child and the period of aid
must be likely to continue longer than one year. 19/ There must be one
or more dependent children living with the person charged with their
care and custody, who are under 16 years of age, provided that the court
in its discretion may also grant aid for the support of minor children
over 16, but in such cases the county is not entitled to any Federal
aid. 19/ May be required to do remunerative work outside of home. 33/

Child: Child must have legal settlement in the county, but

. this qualification may be waived, in the discretion of the State Pension
Department, if the applicant has resided in the State one year. 19/
Receipt of other public aid, except medical and dental care, is a bar to
relief. e_3/

Incapacitated father: Aid may be granted to a father or
other male relative of the specified degrees of kinship who is physically
incapacitated for gainful employment but capable of caring for a dependent
child in his home. _1§/

Property: Ownership of homestead not a bar if total coat
of maintenance of the homestead does not exceed the rental which the
family would be obliged to pay for living quarters. 19/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility

On the county, subject to 33 1/5% reimbursement by the
State. 13/ State pays entire amount in case child has no county legal
settlement. 13/ Cities and towns in counties of.l50,000 population or
more, reimburse county for amount of aid granted to their residents,
minus State contribution. 31/

8. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.35-6).

9. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 48.331.

10. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.33-5).
. 11. Ibid, Sec. 6 (48.33-8).

12. Ibid, Sec. 6 (48.33—7).

13. Ibid, Sec. 6 (48.53-11).

14. Wisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 48.33 (10).

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CARE OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES (Cont'd)
(f) Taxes I
No specific provisions. (State and county: General funds _1_5/)
Town, city, village: Special tax. 16/
(g) Administrative agencies
Juvenile court or county court w, in cooperation with
County Department of Public Welfare in counties of 500,000 or more
population, and County Pension Department, if established, in counties
of less than 500,000 population. _l_8/
(h) Supervisory controls
State Pension Department. 19/
15. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.55-11). '
16. lisconsin Statutes (1933), Sec. 48.33 (10).
17. Laws (19:55), Ch. 554, Sec. 6 (48.33-4).
18. Ibid, Sec. 49.51 (2). .
19' Ibid, Sec. 20

 Wisconsin — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4709
. CARE OF DEPENDENT CIIILDREN (INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES)
(a) Description of class

Neglected children under 18 and dependent children
under 16 years of age. 1/ (See: Footnote 2 under "Juvenile Court"
for definitions.) Crippled children under 21 years of age. 2/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

(l) Verified petition to juvenile court by any
person having knowledge of the facts. 3/

(2) Application for admission to Orthopedic Hospital
filed by a public official, teacher, or minister with the county judge
of the county wherein the child has legal settlement. 4/

(c) Measure of responsibility

Care in a county home, a suitable public institution,
a suitable child welfare agency licensed by the State Board of Control,
or a foster home l/; care in the State Public School 5/; hospitalization
for crippled children in the Children's Orthopedic Hospital 2/; care of
crippled children in State Public School §/.

. (d) Qualifications imposed

Orthopedic Hospital: Child must have a legal
settlement in one of the counties of the State. 2/

State Public School: Child must be under 16 years
of age. No child who is feeble-minded, insane or epileptic is
admitted. g/

(6) Incidence of financial responsibility

(1) County homes: On the County. Obligation
mandatory. 2/

(2) Licensed welfare agencies: County pays each
agency a reasonable weekly sum (to be agreed upon by the juvenile
court and the agency) for each child committed. Obligation mandatory.19/
1. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 48.07 (1)

2. Ibid, Sec. 36.32; Laws (1935), Ch. 555; Wis. Stat.(l933), Sec. 142.01,
48.21.
3. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 48.06.
4. Ibid, Sec. 142.02.
. 5. Ibid, Sec. 48.19; 48.20.
, 6. Ibid, Sec. 48.21.
7. Ibid, Sec. 142.01.
8. Ibid, Sec. 48.20 (1); 142.08.
9. Ibid, Sec. 48.07 (6).
10. Ibid, Sec. 48.07 (6) as amended by Laws (1935), Ch. 455.

 4710 Wisconsin - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
CARE OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN (INSTZI‘UTIONS AND AGENCIES) (Cont'd) .
(6) Incidence of financial responsibility (Cont'd)
(3) Foster homes: County pays foster homes not to
exceed $7 per week for each child cmmnitted. Obligation mandatory. ll/
(4) State Publig_Schoolz Maintained by the State,
but county of child's legal settlement reimburses State one-half of
cost of care. 12/ Obligation mandatory. 13/
(5) Orthopedic Hospital: On the State, subject to
reimbursement of 50 per cent by the counties. Obligation optional.l4/
(f) Taxes
6 No specific provisions.
(g) Administrative agencies
Commitment by juvenile court. 15/ County chil-
dren's boards investigate child welfare agencies and report concerning
them to court and State Board of Control. 16/
(h) Supervisory controls
State Board of Control. 16/ .
11. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 48.07 (6) as amended by Laws (1935),
Ch. 455.
12. Ibid, Sec. 48.20 (4)
13. Ibid, Sec. 48.20 (1); 142.08.
14. Ibid, Sec. 36.32, Laws (1935), Ch. 555.
15. Wisconsin Stat. (1933), Sec. 48.07 (1)
16. Ibid, Sec. 48.30, 48.31.

 Wisconsin - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4711
. BLIND ASSISTANCE
(a) Description of class
Any needy person 18 years of age or more who is blind
or blind and deaf. l/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility ,
Application in writing filed with county judge of
county wherein applicant resides, in such manner and in such form and
containing such information as may be prescribed by the State Pension
Department. The application must be transmitted to the examiner of
the blind and deaf for the county who must enter upon it the results
of his examination and return it to the county judge. The county
judge decides whether the applicant is entitled to a pension and fixes
the amount thereof. g/ Review of denial is allowed to the State
Pension Department. g/
(c) Measure of responsibility
Not to exceed $360 per year if blind or $480 per
year if blind and deaf. l/
(d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must be a resident of Wisconsin at time of
. loss of sight, or have been a resident of the State for 5 years during
the 9 years immediately preceding application, the last year of which
must have been continuous and immediately preceding application. l/
Applicant must not be an inmate of any State, county,
or municipally owned charitable, reformatory, or penal institution nor
in attendance at any State, county, or municipally owned school for the
blind or deaf wherein instruction, room and board and other incidentals
are furnished free of charge, except the summer school of the Wisconsin
School for the Blind. y
Applicant must not publicly solicit alms and muSt
have no relatives legally responsible for his support and able to
support him. 3/
Annual income, including pension, must not exceed
3780. y
_________._________________.___________________._____________..________.
1. Laws (1935), Ch. 554, Sec. 8 (47.08).
2. Ibid, Sec. 9.
3. Ibid, Sec. 2 (49.50) (4).

 4712 Wisconsin - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
BLIND ASSISTANCE (Cont'd) .
(8) Incidence of financial responsibility

On the county, subject to 80 per cent reimbursement. 4/
The State also reimburses the counties for personnel employed in the
administration of blind pensions to an amount not to exceed 4 per cent of
the total paid by each county to beneficiaries as blind pensions. 5/
Obligation mandatory. 4/

(f) Taxes

The county board of every county must annually levy
a tax upon the taxable property therein, sufficient to pay the pensions
provided for. 2/

(g) Administrative agencies

County Board may establish a county Department of
Public Welfare in counties of 500,000 or more population. g/ Where
established, these departments cooperate with the county judge in
administering pensions. 2/

County Board may establish a County Bension Depart-
ment in counties of less than 500,000 population. é] Where established,
these departments cooperate with the judge in administering pensions. Z/ .

Where these departments are not established, the
county court and other agencies designated by the County Board administer
the pension laws. g]

(h) Supervisogy controls

State Pension Department adopts rules and regulations

and exercises actual supervision. §/
' 4. Laws (19:55), Ch. 554, Sec. 8. (47.08).
5. Ibid, Sec. 49.51 (3).
6. Ibid, Sec. 49.51 (2).
7. Ibid, Sec. 9.
8. Ibid, Sec. 2.

 Wisconsin — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4713
. OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
(a) Baum ti_0_32,-::£;_