Kulikowski v. New York State Department of Social Services

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Saratoga County) to review a determination of respondent State Department of Social Services which partially denied Lionel Persons’ application for medical assistance benefits.

Petitioner challenges a February 9, 1989 determination of respondent State Department of Social Services (hereinafter respondent) that Lionel Persons was ineligible for Medicaid benefits as the result of his uncompensated transfer of available resources to his wife. Petitioner concedes the transfer to Persons’…