State v. Amore

In this action, which comes to us by way of reservation from the Superior Court, the *105parties seek advice on the following questions: (1) “Does Section 207 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 407, by virtue of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, preclude the State of Connecticut from using legal process to require the defendant representative payee of social security benefits belonging to Charles Amore, a patient confined at a state mental hospital, to pay over any of those benefits received during the period June 13, 1978, through October 29, 1983, to satisfy the…