Legal Opinion
Wachter v. Shalala
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided June 30, 1994No. 92-CV-554PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Peggy Waehter appeals from a decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services which granted her widow’s disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act (“the Act”), 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., after January 1, 1991, but which denied benefits from March 25, 1987, until January 1, 1991.
At the time of her application for benefits on March 25, 1987, Ms. Wachter was 54 years of age. She had been married to Paul Wachter, a fully insured wage earner under the Act who died on July 8, 1985. She has had serious heart and other medical problems since…
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