FILE PHOTO: People walk by the Pennsylvania Judicial Center Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg,.
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Justices decline to restore cash payments to poor, disabled
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The Associated Press
Matt Rourke / AP Photo
FILE PHOTO: People walk by the Pennsylvania Judicial Center Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg,.
(Harrisburg) — Pennsylvania’s highest court is turning down an effort to resume cash welfare assistance to the poor and disabled while litigation continues over a law that ended the payments.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower-court’s ruling this summer that the groups challenging the law did not prove they were likely to prevail in the ongoing lawsuit.
At issue is a Depression-era program that typically provided about $200 a month.
The payments stopped in August after Republican lawmakers pushed through a bill that ended the $24 million annual program along with reauthorizing subsidies to Philadelphia hospitals.
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