Burks v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

Petitioner (claimant) appeals from an order of the Department of Public Welfare (Department) which discontinued Aid to Families with Dependent Children for her and her children due to claimant’s failure to prove that her husband was absent from the household. His income was therefore considered available to her under 55 Pa. Code §183.44(a), (b).

Claimant had applied for assistance on July 1,1976, alleging that her husband had left the household on June 14, 1976. Assistance was authorized, and the grant remained unchanged until May 19, 1978, when the Executive…