Harris v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

In December of 1972, Elizabeth Harris (applicant) filed a request for public assistance with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (Department) *349in behalf of an unrelated child whom she was supporting and who was also under her custody and control.1 Assistance was denied on December 21, 1972, the Department ruling that the applicant must have adopted the child in order to receive the assistance requested-Although the parties now agree that the applicant was in fact eligible for this assistance at the time of this denial, no appeal was then taken. On September 12,…