Torner ex rel. Torner v. Iowa

McGIVERIN, Justice.

Bernice Torner, by her next friend and husband William Torner, petitioned for judicial review of the decision of the respondent Iowa Department of Social Services declaring Bernice ineligible for continued Title XIX1 Medicaid benefits because her income was too high. The district court ruled that an Iowa administrative rule governing the diversion of her income violated the federal statutory scheme and the due process clauses of the United States and Iowa Constitutions; it remanded the case to the agency for fact-finding on the issue of income “available” to Bernice. The…