Judge Extends Order Blocking State Welfare Changes
A judge has extended an order barring the state from enforcing a new law that would limit the welfare benefits paid to new residents of the state.
American Civil Liberties Union chapters had joined the National Organization for Women in opposing the law, which state officials say is needed to prevent welfare recipients from moving to California to claim the state’s higher welfare benefit.
Under the law, welfare recipients who moved to California could only collect the benefit they would have received in their former home state until they had lived in California for a year.
U.S. District Judge David Levi issued a preliminary injunction late Friday barring the state from enforcing the law, saying it made an unconstitutional distinction between people on the basis of how long they had lived in California.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton, substituting for Levi at an earlier proceeding, had issued a more temporary measure that also blocked enforcement of the law.
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