Christiansen v. Department of Social Security

This is an appeal by the department of social security from a judgment of the Island county superior court reversing a prior decision of the department and directing that a senior citizens grant be allowed respondent, Carl M. Christiansen.

At the time of the departmental hearing, respondent was eighty-five years of age, and had no income and no property, either separate or community. The acting director entered his findings and decision denying the application for the sole reason that respondent’s wife, with whom he is living, owned separate property in excess of $1,400. (She was sixty-seven…