Hesthag v. Hammons

OPINION OF THE COURT

Beatrice Shainswit, J.

Petitioner, a nursing student, brings this CPLR article 78 proceeding to restore welfare benefits which were terminated *132by the respondent Department of Social Services (DSS) after petitioner failed to participate in a workfare program. Petitioner alleges that she was willing to work, but that DSS refused to accommodate her school schedule.

Petitioner began receiving public assistance in the form of Home Relief and Medicaid benefits in or about February 1993. In September 1993, she began taking prerequisites for a two-year associates degree program in…