Miles ex rel. Miles v. Finch

MEMORANDUM

THORNTON, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Miles, seeks surviving child’s monthly insurance benefits under Section 216 of the Social Security Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C.A. § 416(e)), on behalf of the child, Barbara A. Miles, who was legally adopted by plaintiff April 4, 1968. The matter is here on review by Certification of defendant who has denied plaintiff’s application for said benefits.

Plaintiff’s husband died January 9, 1965. The child had been cared for by plaintiff and plaintiff’s husband almost from her birth in 1955. The deceased *1379husband had been receiving disability benefits…