Enrique Velazco v. Steven A. Minter, Etc.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff and the class he represents are recipients both of federally administered Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits and of Old Age Assistance (OAA) benefits, administered by the defendant, the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Welfare. 1 The issue in this case is whether a general notice to these recipients in September of 1972, alerting them to both forthcoming reductions in their OAA checks and net increases in their combined OASDI and OAA benefits, both in unspecified amounts, resulting from program-wide changes in both OASDI and OAA, met…