Opinion ID: 391781
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Costs of Additional Safeguards

Text: 87 Our final problem with the trial court's balancing under Eldridge is that in weighing the feasibility or costs of additional procedures, it considered only the estimated costs of providing the same full fair hearings for under-$100 claims as are currently provided for over-$100 claims. Since we are interested only in ensuring that a claimant receives adequate notice and a genuine opportunity to answer the factual case against him, whether achieved by means of better notice, opportunity to talk to the decisionmaker and/or see his file, or a combination of both, the cost of these additional procedures, not of full fair hearings, is what is at stake. On remand the court should weigh the much less expensive costs of such informal procedures against their expected benefits.