Case Name: Jessica A. WILSON, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2018-11-30
Citations: 259 So. 3d 987
Docket Number: Case No. 5D18-1312
Parties: Jessica A. WILSON, Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 259
Pages: 987–988

Head Matter:
Jessica A. WILSON, Appellant,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Appellee.
Case No. 5D18-1312
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
Opinion filed November 30, 2018
Jessica A. Wilson, Palm Coast, pro se.
Jane Almy-Loewinger, of Department of Children and Families, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jessica A. Wilson appeals the final order issued by the Department of Children and Families ("DCF") dismissing her request for a hearing to challenge DCF's notice of its intended action to recoup $876 in food assistance benefits that it claimed it had overpaid to Wilson. The hearing officer concluded that Wilson had failed to comply with Florida Administrative Code Rule 65-2.046 because she did not request this hearing within ninety calendar days of DCF's notice to her.
Our review of the record clearly shows that DCF mailed its notice to take this adverse action against Wilson to an incorrect address in Brooksville, Florida. DCF's own internal records that predate the notice indicate that at the time, Wilson was residing in Palm Coast, Florida. Section 120.68(7)(c), Florida Statutes (2017), provides, in pertinent part, that the court shall remand a case to the agency for further proceedings or set aside agency action when it finds that the fairness of the proceeding or the correctness of the action may have been impaired by a material error in procedure. Because we hold that such an error occurred here, we reverse the final order of dismissal and remand with directions for DCF to hold the requested hearing.
REVERSED and REMANDED with directions.
WALLIS, LAMBERT, and GROSSHANS, JJ., concur.
We take no position on the merits of the claim.