Fortson v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Edna Fortson appeals an order, of the Crime Victims Compensation Board which denied her claim for benefits based on its conclusion that Fortson was ineligible to receive compensation for her husbands homicide because the total amount payable to her from other sources as a result of the crime offset and exceeded the award fiar out-of-pocket expenses and loss of support for which she otherwise would have been eligible under section 477 of The Administrative Code of 1929, known as the Crime Victims Compensation Act.1

We must determine whether the board erred in computing the…