EL v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

No. 2154 C.D. 1977.

46 Pa.Commw. 517 (1979)

Thomas D. El, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 18, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda M. Gunn, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Argued September 13, 1979, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., ROGERS and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, October 18, 1979:

Petitioner had been receiving general assistance from the Department of Public Welfare (DPW), a federally assisted program.

When petitioner's caseworker interviewed him for his six-month redetermination of eligibility for general assistance, petitioner refused to sign a DPW form which contained ethnic and citizenship data concerning himself. He also had failed...

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