Trant v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This is an appeal by petitioner Esther Trant from an order of the Department of Public Welfare dismissing her appeal from the department’s action reducing her grant under the department’s Energy Assistance Program (EAP) by an amount equal to a federal grant she had received. We vacate and rem'and.

*54On December 31,1979, the petitioner applied to the Allegheny County Board of Assistance for an energy assistance grant under the EAP. An official notice, dated January 7, 1980, informed the petitioner that her application was approved, but it included the qualifying statement…