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The State Supreme Court has turned down a request to temporarily restore welfare
benefits to individuals who have reached their lifetime limits.
The five-year lifetime limit has excluded about 171 welfare recipients in West
Virginia.
The court vote four-to-one not to force the state to continue the program, although
the justices are considering constitutional issues related to cutoffs.
A Jackson County attorney Larry Harless filed a suit over the five-year limit. Harless
argues the state is responsible for helping provide for people's constitutional right to
minimum, humane sustenance. | 
