Opinion
No. 43006.
November 5, 1971.
Public welfare — administrative order denying medical assistance — judicial review.
Appeal by Joseph Ray Haight from an order of the Kandiyohi County District Court, Leif Langsjoen, Judge, affirming a decision of the Department of Public Welfare upholding denial of medical assistance to appellant by the welfare board of said county. Affirmed.
Weis Frauenshuh Law Firm and Dale E. Parker, for appellant.
Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, John M. Mason, Solicitor General, and Judy L. Oakes, Special Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.
Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Otis, Rogosheske, and Peterson, JJ.
The commissioner of public welfare, after an administrative hearing, determined that petitioner was ineligible for medical assistance upon the statutory ground that he had, within a 3-year period prior to his application for assistance, transferred property for the purpose of attaining eligibility for medical assistance under Minn. St. c. 256B. The district court, reviewing the order of the commissioner pursuant to § 256B.11, determined that the order of the state agency was not based upon an erroneous theory of law and was not arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. We affirm the order of the district court from which this appeal was taken.
Affirmed.