Linda D. Johnson v. Vera Likins

ELMO B. HUNTER, District Judge.

Appellants, public officials legally responsible for the administration of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program1 in Minnesota, appeal from that portion of the district court’s order which granted appellees’ motion for summary judgment and permanently enjoined appellants from recouping prior overpayments made to certain AFDC recipients.

The named appellees (hereinafter plaintiffs), and members of the class they represent, are persons who, because of administrative error, have received overpayments of their AFDC benefits and whose future AFDC…