Rosie Quarles v. Fred St. Clair, Individually and as Commissioner of the Mississippi State Department of Public Welfare

JERRE S. WILLIAMS,

Circuit Judge.

This consolidated appeal involves two challenges to Mississippi’s administration of two, interrelated, Social Security Act programs which benefit certain needy children: the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, 42 U.S.C. §§ 601-610; and the Child Support and Establishment of Paternity (CSE) program, 42 U.S.C. §§ 651-662. Because of codification in Part D of title IV of the Social Security Act, the CSE program has become known as the “IV-D” program. 1 These challenges are class actions which focus upon the intended effect of the 1975…