Guerrero v. Adult & Family Service Division

Adult and Family Services Division (AFSD) suspended petitioner’s Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) benefits for eleven weeks in 1981, because she failed to pursue an unemployment compensation claim. At that time, AFSD’s regulations required that ADC recipients pursue unemployment compensation claims as a condition of eligibility.

In 1982, the United States District Court for Oregon held that AFSD could not deny ADC benefits on that ground when a child under age 3 was included in the grant. Bowling v. Hegstrom, No. 81-376 JU (D Or, Jan. 11, 1982). One of petitioner’s children was under age 3.…