Giordano v. Perales

*586The petitioner received interim home relief (hereinafter HR) grants from the respondents while awaiting approval of her application to receive Supplemental Security Income (hereinafter SSI) from the Federal Government. She challenges the respondents’ practice of later recouping their interim HR grants by deducting the full amount of the interim HR payments from the initial lump sum of SSI payment for benefits retroactive to the date of the SSI application, without calculating payments for each month of the interim period separately (see, 42 USC § 1383; Social Services Law §§ 131-a, 158). She…