Lyng v. Castillo

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1986-06-27

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Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court. Eligibility and benefit levels in the federal food stamp program are determined on a “household” rather than an individual basis. The statutory definition of the term “household,” as amended in 1981 and 1982, generally treats parents, children, and siblings who live together as a single household, but does not treat more distant relatives, or groups of unrelat…

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