Howell v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare (In Re Howell)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BLOCH, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the bankruptcy court attaching welfare benefits under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program to fund debtors’ Chapter 13 bankruptcy claims. In each case, the debtor is a recipient of AFDC from appellant, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW), and in each case, the debtor sought to use a portion of the monthly AFDC grant to fund her Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan.

These Chapter 13 cases were filed by Ruthe G. Cavender, on July 6, 1990, Denise Howell, on October 29, 1990, and Vittoria Defeo, on…