Brown v. Wing

OPINION OF THE COURT

Andrew V. Siracuse, J.

This combined CPLR article 78 proceeding and declaratory judgment action was commenced by petition, like a conventional article 78 proceeding. Petitioners recently moved to New York State from Florida and Puerto Rico respectively, and found themselves in straitened circumstances. They applied for Home Relief, the New York State program that provides public assistance to those ineligible under AFDC and other Federal programs.

*557In 1995, however, New York’s Social Services Law had been amended to add the following paragraph to section 131-a (3): "(d)…