Rodney Blaine Johnson v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

CONTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an opinion and order affirming the Secretary’s final decision to deny the plaintiff’s application for child’s insurance benefits. The plaintiff contends that the Secretary’s decision was not based on substantial evidence and that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ignored substantial evidence of appellant’s disabling psychiatric impairment.

The plaintiff is the unmarried child of Richard Johnson, the deceased wage earner, and was born March 21, 1956. Under Title II of the Social Security Act, as amended, the plaintiff must establish, therefore, that…