Houston Welfare Rights Organization, Inc. v. Raymond W. Vowell, Etc.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider whether the State of Texas, in the administration of its program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), complied with federal requirements. 1 The district court concluded that the Texas Department of Public Welfare’s administration of the AFDC program did not violate federal law, see Houston Welfare Rights Organization, Inc. v. Vowell, 391 F.Supp. 223 (S.D.Tex. 1975). Plaintiffs appeal, arguing two major points: first, that Texas’ policy of budgeting only a pro rata share of shelter and utility expenses when a non-AFDC…