In re Willey

This is an appeal from decisions of the Human Services Board that the petitioner-appellant was not entitled to payment of his physician’s witness fees and that he was not entitled to disability benefits under the Vermont Aid to the Disabled Program.

Petitioner is an eighteen-year-old man with a ninth grade education. He finished school in 1971 and worked at heavy labor until October, 1972. In October petitioner was involved in an automobile collision from which he received extensive injuries.

*594On May 23, 1973, petitioner filed an application for disability benefits to the Vermont Department of…