Deal To Cut Paperwork
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A plan to ease the paperwork burden for North
Carolina's social service workers is getting favorable re
views locally.
State officials and the courts have hammered out a
deal that would change requirements of a controversial
1989 court order.
Counties were kept out of the negotiating process,
said Brunswick County DSS Director Jamie Orrock,
president of the 4,(XX)-mcmber N.C. Social Services
Association.
"It looks a lot better than what we had," said Orrock.
"Everyone realized it was not benefiting the clients. It
had gotten so cumbersome that it wasn't working."
Through the technology of conference calling. Orrock
was linked with other state officials last week as oppos
ing sides ironed out final points of the plan. 'I he out
come. set for approval this week, has most counties
pleased.
"I don't think we're going to get a better deal."
Orrock said.
The proposal would end monilonngs al the % county
DSS offices by an outside team of investigators; put the
state in charge of disability Medicaid (MAD) applica
lions; and require quicker processing of applications for
Aid To Families With Dependent Children (AFDC), the
county':; state and federally-funded welfare program.
Plaintiffs in the Alexander vs. Flaherty lawsuit, first
filed in 1974. alleged that the state's social services de
partments were not processing applications quickly
enough. The 1 1>X9 consent order required that each de
partment be monitored annually for policy and proce
dure by an outside team of reviewers.
Orrock has been an outspoken opponent of a mount
ing wall of paperwork that faces DSS workers. Re
quirements under the Alexander vs. Flaherty ruling in
creased the paperwork and actually slowed the applica
tion process, he argued.
II signed, the agreement would Like effect Aug. 1, al
lowing departments six months to establish new proce
durcs and time to comply with the court order. By 199},
DSS workers must process 90 percent of their AFDC"
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THREE PEOriJ-: were injured Monday in this two-car accident in front of Brunswick Community
College on U.S. 17 in Supply. The driver of the Honda, foreground, was charged with making an un
safe movement.
Three Iniured In SiiddIv Wreck
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Three people were injured Mon
day afternoon in a wreck on U.S. 17
in front of Brunswick Community
College in Supply.
William Scott Clemmons, 19, of
Route 1, Bolivia, was charged with
an unsafe movement violation after
he pulled his car into the path of an
approaching car traveling south.
State Trooper R.L. Murray reported.
Clemmons, traveling north on
U.S. 17, was attempting a left turn
into the college driveway when his
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Ford Thunderbird driven by Arthur
Vance Benton, 38, of Route 1. Win
nabow, Munray slated.
Both drivers were injured along
with a passenger in the Benton car,
Doris Hall Benton of Winnabow.
They were transported by ambu
lance to The Brunswick Hospital in
Supply.
"Mostly, they suffered just cuts
and abrasions," said Murray.
All were treated and later re
leased, he said.
Damage was estimated at $600 to
the Ford and S4.000 to the Honda in
the 2: 10 p.m. accident.
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Two people were injured ip an ac
cident Tuesday morning at Gris
settown.
Carmela Ann Ferlauto, 76, of
Occan Isle Beach, was chargcd with
an unsafe movement violation after
she pulled her car into the path of
another vehicle at the intersection of
U.S. 17 and N.C. 9(W about seven
miles south of Shallottc, Murray re
ported.
Ms. Feriauto was traveling south
on U.S. 17 when she attempted a left
turn onto N.C. 904 and her 1986
Nissan collided with a 1982 Datsun
driven by Tommy Fredrick Gause,
45 of Corw2v S.C. Murrav s 12 ted.
Gause was treated and released at
The Brunswick Hospital following
the 10:50 a.m. accident. Ms.
Feriauto received a broken foot in
the wreck and was still being treated
at the hospital Tuesday afternoon,
said Murray.
Both vehicles were totaled, said
Murray, with losses estimated at
to the Gause cht and S3 ,000
to the Feriauto car.
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"We're doing that already," said Orrock. "Thai's noi a
problem for us now, and I don't see it as being a prob
lem."
Brunswick County's A FIX' unit received a certificate
from the state in December lor its number of error- free
case actions and timely processing of applications.
The new standards must be foliowed for six years to
eliminate other requirements under the Alexander vs.
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Monitors examined a sampling of Brunswick
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