Carmen M. SUAREZ, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellant

The Secretary of Health and Human Services appeals the district court judgment reversing the Secretary’s denial to appellee Carmen Suarez of benefits under the child disability provisions of the Social Security Act.

Appellee, born on July 30, 1926, fifty-five years old at the date of the hearing in 1982 before the Administrative Law Judge, claims disability from manic depressive psychosis and neurosis since age twelve. The record 1 reveals that she suffered her first serious depressive episode at around age twelve. Two additional depressive episodes, at around age eighteen, culminated in…