STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1291, sig. 109-4/1045

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d8yx 30 Welfare Office. The Welfare Office is responsible for the Zentraifür- besorgungsamt. The Office is to be integrated into the Office of Welfare Office for the Municipal Districts I to VII, which so far receives support requests and prepares for the staff of the Central Welfare Office . The municipal administration's offices for the districts VIII to XIX should, as before, take up requests for assistance for their territory, make proposals to the welfare office for approvals and decide one-off support for themselves. A special institution, the so-called relief agency for needy citizens for the purpose of additional care, is connected with the Central Welfare Office. Although the original purpose of the scheme has become obsolete, the scheme continues to exist. It still receives substantial funds (about 3 million K per year) from the 20-heller collection for each cinema ticket. The relief agency has its own accounting department, which is occupied by municipal officials and employees. Today, the funds of the relief agency are used for the following purposes: 1. Abundance of additional care to the assisted, 2. Support is provided to the German NSV (K 300.O00.-- ) , 4. remuneration of 192 contract employees and workers . The use of the funds of the relief agency is an addition to the funds made available to the welfare office for the management of public welfare. Whereas, therefore, it is expedient to place the management of the funds and the implementation of the tasks of the Agency under the direction of the Welfare Office;