Meyer v. Lyng

LARSON, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff Harold E. Meyer brought this class action challenging the standards used to determine eligibility for food stamps, alleging no two-party check which is retained by a creditor to satisfy a debt should be counted as “income.” The district court1 granted summary judgment in favor of defendants the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commissioner of the Iowa Department of Human Services, and plaintiff has appealed. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff is a farmer who obtained an operating loan from the Farmers Home Administration…