Legal Opinion
Paula VARGAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 5, 1990No. 325, Docket 89-6146PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Paula Vargas appeals pro se from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York which affirmed the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ denial of Supplemental Security Income to appellant. See Vargas v. Bowen, 712 F.Supp. 331 (S.D.N.Y.1989). We reverse and remand to the Secretary for calculation of benefits.
When Mrs. Vargas, a native of Puerto Rico, applied for Supplemental Security Income in 1986, she was forty-five years old. She was an illiterate widow who had received only a first grade education. She could speak…
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