Coker v. Celebrezze

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

Claimant herein, W. L. Coker, filed simultaneously on May 7, 1963 with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare a “DISABLED CHILD-STATEMENT REGARDING DISABILITY” and “APPLICATION FOR INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR CHILD OF LIVING WAGE EARNER. * * ” In the application, claimant listed as an adopted child, Ronald Lewis Coker, whose birth date was February 4, 1940. The statement showed that Ronald Lewis Coker was “Mental retarded cerebral palsy;” that his disabling condition began at 17 months and that his formal education carried him through the eighth grade which…