States Members passed the law setting up the new system by an overwhelming majority.
It includes an article that spells the end of the Constables’ responsibility for handling welfare for their parishioners.
But the head of the Constables’ Committee, St Ouen Constable Ken Vibert, says the parishes should still have a role to play in delivering the system and in helping out parishioners from time to time.
He wants the parish halls to handle some of the payments for elderly people, some of whom he believes are ‘too proud’ to go to the Social Security offices in La Motte Street to take the money.
And he wants to set up a system so that if Constables offer parishioners some money from time to time if an emergency arises outside office hours, they can claim the money back from the department.
Mr Vibert says the system should be delivered through the parish halls because otherwise some claimants will have to waste some of the money on getting to town and back.
