Fransen v. Iowa Department of Human Services

McGiverin, justice.

The questions involved here arose in connection with a decision by respondent Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) to terminate benefits petitioner Kathleen Fransen and her son, Donald Pittman, had been receiving under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC). The commissioner of DHS affirmed a hearing officer’s determination that petitioner received Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) as representative payee on behalf of her disabled husband, Donald Fransen, and that this income was deemed available to petitioner and her son. On judicial…