Swofford v. Adult & Family Services Division

Petitioner seeks review of an order of the Adult and Family Services Division that denied her application for Aid to Dependent Children for July, 1987.

Petitioner, a law student during the regular school year, was employed in July at Oregon Legal Services under a work-study grant from the United States Department of Education. She asserts that, contrary to federal law, AFSD included the grant in her income. We disagree. Under OAR 461-04-840 and OAR 461-04-885, AFSD must count work-study grants for graduate students as income. Although federal law requires AFSD to exclude work-study grants from…