A decision reducing welfare payments to Merced...
A decision reducing welfare payments to Merced County indigents has been overturned on grounds that the Board of Supervisors failed to determine subsistence needs of recipients. Supervisors reduced general assistance grants by 12% in 1983, from $198 to $175 a month, effective July 1, 1983. Some indigents sued but lost in Superior Court when Judge Donald Fretz refused to grant them injunctive relief. The state’s 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno ruled, however, that the board failed to satisfy a legal requirement to consider a study of minimum subsistence needs in Merced County.
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