Adinolfi v. Meyer (In Re Adinolfi)

Jury, Bankruptcy Judge,

Dissenting:

To answer the narrow question presented to the Panel in this appeal, the majority, applying its version of statutory construction, has swept a broad, inclusive brush across the landscape of exclusions from current monthly-income for the purposes of a chapter 13 means test analysis. As highlighted by the majority’s recitation of the myriad of benefit programs “provided by” the Social Security Act (SSA) — a “sprawling statute ... providing for many benefit programs, some of which, are familiar and others obscure” — this approach would exclude from the monies…