The Lawrence, Massachusetts, Sunday Eagle-Tribune reports that the Western Massachusetts Legal Services Corporation, a legal aid group, has produced a brochure that explains how welfare recipients can spend money in such a way as to remain eligible to continue to receive benefits. Normally, welfare recipients are not eligible for aid when they have more than $1,000 on hand. But, as the brochure instructs, they can be back on the dole within a month if they "spend the money as quickly as possible." It supplies an example: "Martha gets her [Aid to Families with Dependent Children] checks on the 1st and 15th of each month. She knows she will be getting a settlement about the 20th of October. Since she wants to do some special things with the money, she goes to her local welfare office on Sept. 30 and signs their form requesting that she will be taken off AFDC Oct. 1. When the settlement money arrives, she spends it according to her plans and has spent all but $1,000 of it by Oct. 31. She then goes back to her local welfare office on Nov. 1 and reapplies to AFDC."

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