Simms v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare

Opinion by

President Judge Crumdish, Jr.,

Simms appeals a Department of Public Welfare (DPW) order reversing a hearing examiner’s decision to continue general assistance benefits. We affirm.1

Simms has been a recipient of public assistance benefits since December, 1971. She has owned a house in Philadelphia since January, 1966, which she vacated in 1979 due to its extreme state of disrepair.2

*326On November 6,1980, 'the County Assistance Office informed Simms that on November 24, 1980, her assistance benefits would be discontinued because she owned nonresident real property which had not been…