Ondrusek v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Palladino,

Petitioners, John J. Ondrusek and Jane L. Ondrusek, appeal from a decision of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) which affirmed the calculation of Petitioners’ food stamp benefits by the Lebanon County Assistance Office (CAO). We affirm.

The questions presented in this appeal are: whether public assistance payments should be included as income for purposes of calculating food stamp (FS) benefits; and whether court-ordered support payments should be excluded from income for FS purposes.1

Petitioners and their daughter composed a three-member FS household which…