Sanner v. Department of Public Welfare

OPINION BY

President Judge COLINS.

Patricia A. Wise Sanner (Sanner)1 has filed a petition for review of an order of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Bureau of Hearings and Appeals (Department), that adopted a recommended decision of a hearing examiner who had concluded that the Department lacked jurisdiction to consider the issues Sanner raised in an appeal of a Family Service Plan (plan) involving Sanner and her daughter.2

Based upon the documents the Department’s hearing examiner accepted into the record, and the factual findings she made in her recommended decision, we note the…