Foster v. Department of Social Welfare

The Department of Social Welfare, as appellant, challenges an order of the Human Services Board reversing a departmental decision and reinstating, retroactively, the allowance for property taxes included in petitioner’s budget for purposes of the Aid to Needy Families with Children Program (ANFC). It also challenges a provision of that order establishing “protective” (i.e., direct) payments to the town involved. It claims that, since claimant has let his property taxes go unpaid, their inclusion in his budget violates its Regulation 2211.3, requiring housing allowances to be budgeted “as…