Navajo Woman Awarded Judgment In Fight To Receive Moving Assistance

Mealey's (August 7, 2020, 11:03 AM EDT) -- PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A Navajo woman has a second chance at receiving relocation aid under the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974 after an Arizona federal judge on Aug. 6 reversed the denial of benefits to her and sent the case back to an agency hearing officer to decide whether the woman's common-law marriage when she was a teenager qualified her as a head of household eligible to receive benefits (Bernaleen Singer v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, No. 19-8171, D. Ariz., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 140529)....