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Select Board adopts updated welfare guidelines, raises burial assistance to $1,000
Summary
The Select Board accepted Town Manager Jessica Cyr’s adjustments to the Welfare Assistance Guidelines to reflect SNAP allowance changes and increased burial/cremation assistance from $750 to $1,000; the motion passed unanimously.
Town Manager Jessica Cyr told the board she updated the Town of Lancaster’s Welfare Assistance Guidelines to reflect October SNAP food and non-food allowance changes and proposed increasing the burial/cremation assistance amount from $750 to $1,000, along with an updated application for burial assistance.
Selectman Leon Rideout moved to accept the adjustments and Selectman Kathy-Jean Lavoie seconded; the board voted unanimously to adopt the updated guidelines. The minutes record that the change was accepted but do not list individual votes by name beyond the motion and second.
