Welfare cuts are back on after U.S. District Judge Paul Borman ruled late Friday that the new notices sent out this week by the Michigan Department of Human Services provided enough warning and information to 11,162 families scheduled to lose their cash assistance benefits this month.
The revised notices "satisfy the due process concerns," Borman wrote in his ruling.
A class action was filed in September by cash-assistance recipients facing the loss of their monthly allotments. Borman ruled earlier this month that the state had to continue paying benefits because it had done such a poor job of notifying the families that their cash assistance benefits would end Oct. 1.
So the state sent out new notices this week that included information on the state law authorizing the end of benefits and details on how recipients could appeal the termination.
"We will continue to move forward with our outreach to these recipients," said Maura Corrigan, director of the state Department of Human Resources.
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