Wolston v. District of Columbia Department of Human Resources Social Services Administration

PAIR, Associate Judge:

Petitioner is and had been for sometime prior to February 1971 a recipient of a monthly $56 food stamp coupon allotment, under a federally aided public assistance program administered in the District of Columbia by the Social Services Administration of the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources, respondent herein.

Informed in early February 1971 that petitioner had rented for $75 monthly one of the rooms in his apartment, respondent informed petitioner that it was proposed to increase from $4 to $26 the cost of his monthly food stamp coupon allotment.1

Complaini…