The Department of Human Services’ Division of Family and Children Services (“DFCS”) assessed a penalty of 3.43 months against Petitioner for transferring $20,020.46 of her assets without receiving fair market value in return. This meant that she was ineligible for a nursing home vendor payment for three full months, and entitled to only a partial […]
DFCS cannot toll the transfer of assets penalty period. Read More
The Division of Family and Children Services (“DFCS”) removed, or “expunged” the balance of Petitioner’s food stamps benefits after he failed to access those benefits for a period exceeding twelve months. DFCS continued to expunge monthly benefit amounts from Petitioner’s account as each benefit amount “aged” to twelve months. The Court held that DFCS’s action
Agency authorized to remove food stamps balance after twelve months of inactivity. Read More
A boarding house was subject to a fine for providing services that could only be performed by a licensed personal care home. During a site visit, the facility was found to have kept the residents’ medications in lockers, and investigators discovered that the facility’s owner had organized two of the residents’ medications for them. Per
Boarding house fined for temporarily operating as an unlicensed personal care home. Read More
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources issued a permit to the City of Guyton to construct a land application system (LAS), which applies treated wastewater to land via irrigation system. The Petitioner, an adjacent land owner, argued surface water and groundwater from the LAS site would enter his land and contain levels of constituents that
Decision to issue land application system permit upheld. Read More
Petitioner, a certified emission inspector, issued passing emission certificates to forty-four vehicles, despite never having tested the vehicles’ gas caps. He also issued passing emission certificates to three vehicles that were never tested using a fraudulent practice called “clean scanning,” whereby a surrogate vehicle is employed to obtain passing test results. During a covert audit,
In compliance with the Georgia Safe Dams Act, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources reclassified the Lakes at Ansley Dam as a Category I dam because improper operation or dam failure would flood a residence with 1.5 feet of water, causing a probable loss of human life for vulnerable occupants such as elderly or disabled
Dam reclassification from Category II to Category I upheld. Read More
