Ferguson v. Noe

CLAY, Commissioner.

The Department of Economic Security appeals from a judgment awarding appel-lee $3400 (with interest at 6 percent from the date of the judgment) as a retroactive award of public assistance payments which should have been made to her as the parent of needy children.

For about 10 years prior to May 1958 appellee had been granted assistance to take care of her needy children because their father was incapacitated from work. Payments were then discontinued on the ground the father’s incapacity no longer existed, *651and after an appeal within the administrative machinery, this…