Taylor v. Department of Human Services

OPINION

LOPEZ, Judge.

Taylor appeals the fair hearing decision of the Human Services Department (Department) reducing her food stamp allotment, § 27-3-4, N.M.S.A.1978. We reverse and remand. The decisive issue in this appeal is whether the Department’s failure to give notice to Taylor of its reasons for reducing her food stamp benefits is fatal to its decision in this case.

Taylor was certified on February 9, 1981, to receive $70.00 per month in food stamps from March, 1981, to February, 1982. We gather from the record, which is not clear, that Taylor’s allotment was automatically reduced to…