Goodman v. Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

COLINS, President Judge.

Marion F. Goodman (Petitioner) petitions for review of an order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (Department) that affirmed a decision of the Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) that, in turn, affirmed a welfare hearing officer’s determination that the Bucks County Assistance Office (BCAO) and the Bucks County Area Agency of Aging (AAA) properly denied medical assistanee/nursing home care benefits (MA/NHC) to Petitioner. We vacate and remand.

Petitioner, who is currently eighty-four years old, became a resident of Leader…