PERKINS v. DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERVICES

No. AX-73.

452 So.2d 1007 (1984)

Betty PERKINS, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DISTRICT IV, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Greenberg and Amy Hirsch, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Alicia Jacobs, Judith Curtain Fendrich and Harden King, Gen. Counsel for the Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Tallahassee, for appellee.


ERVIN, Chief Judge.

Appellant Perkins appeals, on behalf of herself and others similarly situated, from a final order of a hearing officer of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS), disqualifying her household from food stamp eligibility for failure to meet an assigned "workfare" obligation. We reverse and remand.

Workfare is a component of the joint federal-state Food Stamp Program requiring food stamp recipients to perform labor at government...

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