RAWSTON v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE


412 Mass. 778 (1992)

593 N.E.2d 216

FRANCES A. RAWSTON vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE. MICHELLE DELL ISOLA vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE. MONICA REPPUCCI vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rochelle Hahn (Allan G. Rodgers with her) for the plaintiffs.

Daniel W. Halston, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Allan G. Rodgers, for Coalition for Basic Human Needs & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

In each of these three cases the Department of Public Welfare (department), which is the State agency that administers the Massachusetts Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, denied the plaintiff applicant's application for AFDC benefits. In separate administrative appeals, department referees concluded that the applicants were not "living with" their dependent children in homes maintained by the applicants as required by 106 Code Mass...

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