MULLANEY v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE


9 Mass. App. Ct. 613 (1980)

403 N.E.2d 427

PAULINE MULLANEY vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE (and two companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

April 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emerson R. Marks, Jr., for the plaintiffs.

Paul W. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: BROWN, DREBEN, & KASS, JJ.


KASS, J.

These three cases, consolidated on appeal, raise an identical question concerning the permissible frequency of "emergency assistance" payments to destitute families with children. The plaintiffs say payments may be made on an average of once every twelve months; the Commissioner says that twelve months must elapse before a second set of emergency assistance payments may be made. This is not an academic distinction. If thirty days of emergency assistance payments...

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