Social services – SSDI and SSI benefit denials – Due process
Where a plaintiff has challenged denials of her applications for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits and Supplemental Security Income benefits, I find that the case must be remanded for...
View ArticleSocial services – Minor child
Where a U.S. magistrate judge has recommended affirming a decision of the defendant Commissioner of Social Security denying benefits to the plaintiff’s minor child, I find that the recommendation...
View ArticleSocial services – Medicare
Where the Secretary of Health and Human Services denied Medicare coverage to a plaintiff during a two-month period when he was at a skilled nursing care facility following a hospital stay, I find that...
View ArticleSocial services – Disability benefits – Findings
Where an administrative law judge denied disability and supplemental security income benefits to a plaintiff alleged to suffer from “affective and anxiety-related disorders and [a] history of...
View ArticleSocial services – Denial of Social Security benefits
Where the Commissioner of Social Security has denied a plaintiff’s application for disability benefits, I hold that the benefit denial should be affirmed because (1) a hypothetical upon which the...
View ArticleSocial services – Disability benefits
Where the defendants denied the plaintiff’s claim for long-term disability benefits, they acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
View ArticleSocial services – Remand
Where an administrative judge erred in her decision, I recommend that a remand be ordered, not that benefits be ordered paid to the plaintiff.
View ArticleSocial services – Disability benefits
Where a plaintiff has been denied Social Security disability benefits, I hold that the benefit denial decision should be upheld because no merit exists to the plaintiff’s allegations that the hearing...
View ArticleSocial services – SSI
Where the defendant Commissioner of the Social Security Administration has denied a plaintiff’s application for Supplemental Security Income, I hold that the denial should be upheld, as “there was no...
View ArticleSocial services – SSI and disability benefits
Where the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration has denied a plaintiff’s applications for Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, I hold that the...
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