pre-termination evidentiary hearing
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
the pre-termination hearing has one function only: to produce an initial determination of the validity of the welfare department's grounds for discontinuance of payments in order to protect a recipient against an erroneous termination of his benefits.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970).