Patricia Hudson v. Karen L. Bowling, Sec. W. Va. DHHR

WORKMAN, Justice:

In this case involving an alleged overpayment of food stamp benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 7 United States Code §§ 201 lto 2036(a) (2012) (hereinafter “SNAP”)1,the respondent, Karen L. Bowling, Secretary, West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources (hereinafter “DHHR” or “the Department”),2 maintains that the petitioner, Patricia Hudson (hereinafter “the petitioner”), and her husband, Harold Hudson (hereinafter “Mr. Hudson”), were living together for seventeen months after the petitioner had filed to receive food stamps as a separated…