Christopher v. Montgomery County Department of Health & Human Services

BATTAGLIA, Judge.

This case requires us to consider whether a food stamp recipient must be receiving disability benefits in order to be entitled to an “uncapped” “excess shelter cost deduction” under the Maryland Food Stamp Program. Determining that “receives” means “actual receipt,” we conclude that the decision of the Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter the “ALJ”) that the appellant must actually be receiving disability benefits to be entitled to the uncapped excess shelter cost deduction was correct, and we affirm the judgment of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, which had affirmed…