Residence Under Public Assistance Law

Rutherford,

Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your communication requesting advice relative to legal residence of unemancipated minors and wives under the Public Assistance Law of June 24, 1937, P. L. 2051, as amended, 62 PS §2501 et seq.

Specifically, you present the following questions:

1. Do minor children over one year of age, who have been absent from Pennsylvania after having resided with their parents in Pennsylvania for a year or more, meet the residence requirements for public assistance when they return to the home of their parents who have retained residence in…