De Stefano v. Albany County Department of Social Services

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this *970court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the State Commissioner of Social Services which denied petitioner’s application for medical assistance.

Petitioner, an indigent person, was hospitalized beginning in the latter part of January, 1982. On February 24, 1982, petitioner applied to the Albany County Department of Social Services (county), for medical assistance. To prove her entitlement, she was required to submit certain documents, among which was her life insurance…