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Suffolk tests night hours at social services centers

Fewer welfare clients walked in, but more working poor applied for heating aid and food stamps. And 50 people who showed up too early were sent elsewhere.

Those were the results for last week's first test of night hours in Suffolk's Deer Park social services center. Details were released as the county readies for its second test of night hours in Coram today.

The experiment is the...

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