Opinion
June 22, 1992
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Molloy, J).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Although the petitioner's four grandchildren, on whose behalf she received Aid to Families with Dependent Children, were of different parentage, under the circumstances of this case, since they all resided with a single caretaker (the petitioner), it was reasonable to conclude that their income and resources were pooled and that they constituted one household (cf., Matter of Padilla v. Wyman, 34 N.Y.2d 36, 40). The determination that they constituted a single household is not arbitrary and capricious. Thompson, J.P., Miller, Ritter and Copertino, JJ., concur.