Pomeroy v. Department of Public Welfare

In my view the department wrongfully denied Mrs. Pomeroy’s claim that she was entitled to one-third of the funds paid to the department by the probation officer of the District Court of Springfield who had received them as support, ordered by a Probate Court for Mrs. Pomeroy’s three children, from the father of the children, only two of whom were eligible for and given aid by the department. The third child, R-, had been placed in the Belchertown State School in 1965, and her needs were not included in the AFDC grant made on March 28, 1967, because she was not living at home. G. L. c. 118, §…