Anderson v. Iowa Department of Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the department’s hearing officer improperly relied on Medicaid eligibility guidelines contained in a department manual addressing an issue about use of funds from a jointly owned bank account that was not addressed in a rule or official policy statement
• recognizing a statement in an employment manual was not a validly adopted agency rule with the force of law
• holding an agency could not use a policy found in a department’s employee manual as the rule of law to determine a contested issue because the agency never adopted a rule containing such a policy
• holding an agency could not use a policy found in a department’s employee manual as the rule of law to determine a contested issue because the agency never adopted a rule containing such a policy
• stating “[i]f the district court found one issue dispositive and did not address the other issues, we can scrutinize all issues in reviewing the rulings”
• rejecting determination that ability to write checks on joint account made money available to joint tenant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).