Legal Opinion
Fidelia VALENCIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1985No. 83-6223PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Fidelia Valencia applied for supplemental security benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1381-1388 (1982), and for disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 401-433 (1982). She alleged that she had become disabled as a result of a back injury sustained in February, 1977. She is currently 63 years old and was 56 at the time of the onset of her alleged disability. She was born and raised in Mexico where she received an education through the third grade. She speaks Spanish, and is only marginally capable of reading,…
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