Legal Opinion
Schweiker v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 4, 1981No. 79-1380PublishedCited by 687 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
The issue in this case is whether Congress constitutionally may decline to grant Supplemental Security Income benefits to a class of otherwise eligible individuals who are excluded because they are aged 21 through 64 and are institutionalized in public mental institutions that do not receive Medicaid funds for their care. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held unconstitutional, under *223the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, that portion of the Social Security Act, as amended, that excludes these otherwise eligible persons from the supplemental…
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