Zapata

The facts pertinent to our disposition herein are not in dispute and may be summarized briefly as follows. In July of 1977, respondent Georgina Zapata applied for benefits under the aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) welfare program. (Tit. IV-A of the Social Security Act of 1935, 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq. (the Act).) That application was denied by the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services and, after hearing, the *860 denial was sustained by appellant on the ground that the only child in the family unit, Georgina’s son, was already receiving assistance under the supplemental security income for aged, blind and disabled (SSI) program. (Tit. XVI of the Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq.)

Similar determinations were made by appellant respecting respondents Alfred Long, Eunice Holmes and Selma Haskins, except that in these cases AFDC aid was discontinued, upon a showing the dependent children of the parties started receiving SSI benefits.

Underlying appellant’s decisions were the facts that (a) state law requires that in order to qualify for AFDC benefits each needy family must contain “one or more needy children qualified for aid” (Welf. & Inst. Code, §…