JESSICA A. WILSON
v.
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
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A material procedural error occurs when an agency mails notice of adverse action to an incorrect address, requiring remand for the requested hearing.
[1] Mailing notice of adverse agency action to an address that contradicts the agency's own records constitutes a material procedural error under section 120.68(7)(c), Florid…
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
JESSICA A. WILSON,
Appellant,
v. Case No. 5D18-1312
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES,
Appellee.
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Opinion filed November 30, 2018
Administrative Appeal from the Department of Children and Families.
Jessica A. Wilson, Palm Coast, pro se.
Jane Almy-Loewinger, of Department of Children and Families, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Jessica A. Wilson appeals the final order issued by the Department of Children and Families (“DCF”) dismissing her request for a hearing to challenge DCF’s notice of its intended action to recoup $876 in food assistance benefits that it claimed it had overpaid to Wilson. The hearing officer concluded that Wilson had failed to comply with Florida Administrative Code Rule 65-2.046 because she did not request this hearing within ninety calendar days of DCF’s notice to her.
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Our review of the record clearly shows that DCF mailed its notice to take this adverse action against Wilson to an incorrect address in Brooksville, Florida. DCF’s own internal records that predate the notice indicate that at the time, Wilson was residing in Palm Coast, Florida. Section 120.68(7)(c), Florida Statutes (2017), provides, in pertinent part, that the court shall remand a case to the agency for further proceedings or set aside agency action when it finds that the fairness of the proceeding or the correctness of the action may have been impaired by a material error in procedure. Because we hold that such an error occurred here, we reverse the final order of dismissal and remand with directions for DCF to hold the requested hearing.1
REVERSED and REMANDED with directions. WALLIS, LAMBERT, and GROSSHANS, JJ., concur.