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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
United States Department of Agriculture v. Moreno
Citation:
413 U.S. 528 (1973)Facts
The federal food stamp program was established in 1964 to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among low-income households. Initially, the program defined a “household” as “a group of related or non-related individuals” living as one economic unit. In 1971, Congress amended the definition to include only groups of related individuals, thereby excluding households containing unrelated persons. The appellees in this case were individuals who, despite meeting income eligibility requirements, were denied food stamps solely because they lived with unrelated persons. For example, Jacinta Moreno, a 56-year-old diabetic with a monthly income of $75, lived with Ermina Sanchez and her three children. After paying her share of rent, utilities, transportation to medical appointments, and laundry, Moreno had only $10 per month left for food. Other appellees faced similar circumstances, including a family who took in a 20-year-old girl with emotional problems and a mother who shared an apartment with an unrelated woman to afford living near her hearing-impaired daughter’s special school.
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