Legal Opinion
Thomas E. Bunch v. Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1982No. 81-2164PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
For income tax purposes, Congress has recently abandoned the distinction between earned and unearned income. Pub.L.No. 97-34 § 101(a) (Aug. 13, 1981). Here we encounter complications engendered by the application of a similar distinction for purposes of determination of qualification before retirement, and entitlement after retirement, for social security retirement insurance benefits. 1
Thomas E. Bunch was a soybean farmer and the proprietor of a mobile home park in the years before his retirement. By treating the earnings from his mobile home park as the product of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- George F. Delno v. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1965
- Leslie A. Ludeking v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970
- Robert F. Maloney v. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1964
- Jack Gordon v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
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