Michael G. Zaharakis v. Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health & Human Services

TANG, Circuit Judge:

Michael Zaharakis, a terminally-ill leukemia patient, seeks to enjoin the Secretary’s use of Retrospective Monthly Accounting in the calculation of Supplemental Security Income benefits. Alternatively, he seeks to enjoin the use of the second preceding month as the budget month within that system. All injunctive relief was denied in the district court. We affirm.

Zaharakis first received SSI benefits in February, 1984. The first and second payments, however, were reduced by the amount of benefits he had received two months earlier under the Aid to Families with Dependent…