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Seeing Your Case File at the County Welfare Department
In each county, the welfare department keeps a case file for each public assistance applicant and recipient. A case file may include several folders and many documents. Your case file may or may not have information important to your hearing.
If you want to look at your case file, you must first call your county welfare department and make an appointment. You can only look at your case file at a county welfare department office. The county cannot let you take the case file into a room by yourself.
You are not required to look at your case file before your hearing.
You can ask to look at your case file even if you have not requested a hearing.