Costello v. Perales

Proceeding (transferred to this court by order of the Appellate Division, Second Department) pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of respondent which sustained the foster care payment rates established for petitioner by the Orange County Department of Social Services.

Petitioner challenges the denial of her request for a retroactive increase in the foster care payments received by her during the period March 1985 through September 1987 from the Orange County Department of Social Services (hereinafter Orange DSS). When petitioner and her husband received their seven-month-old…