Sutter v. Perales

— Order modified and, as modified, affirmed, without costs, in accordance with the following memorandum: The question presented in plaintiff’s action for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief is whether the defendant Commissioner of Social Services had sufficiently broad rule-making power to provide by regulation that aid to a home relief recipient who receives “nonrecurring lump sum income” must be suspended until the aggregate of the suspended aid payments equals the lump sum. 11 Plaintiff received a lump-sum Social Security settlement in the amount of $1,320. When she notified the…