Dorn v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare

Opinion by

Judge Bogers,

Gloria Dorn, a recipient of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), has petitioned for review of a Final Administrative Action Order of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) affirming the dismissal by a hearing examiner of her appeal from the action of the Northampton County Assistance Office (CAO) reducing her children’s AFDC grant by reason of the receipt by her of support payments from her estranged husband.

Mrs. Dorn was receiving AFDC benefits of $318.00 a month for herself and her two children. In September of 1980, Mrs. Dorn began to receive court ordered…