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WOODSON v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Docket No. 6,605.

27 Mich. App. 239 (1970)

183 N.W.2d 465

WOODSON v. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 7, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Kaminsky (with Peter H. Arkison, law student appearing pursuant to GCR 1963, 921.) (University of Detroit Urban Law Clinic), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Maxine Boord Virtue, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.

Amici curiae: Neighborhood Legal Services Centers, Community Legal Council, Detroit Metropolitan Welfare Rights Organization, and West Side Mothers Welfare Rights Organization, by Thomas L. Smithson and Alan W. Houseman (Neighborhood Legal Services Centers).

Before: FITZGERALD, P.J., and LEVIN and T.M. BURNS, JJ.

LEVIN, J.

The plaintiff, Daniel Woodson, is a blind man. For a number of years he has been receiving welfare benefits from the state under the Federally-assisted aid-to-blind program.1

In August, 1967, shortly after he began receiving $79 a month as a social security disability payment, he was advised by the department of welfare that his monthly aid-to-the-blind check would be reduced by that amount, from $124 a month to $45 a...

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