Legal Opinion
Kugler v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 14, 1986No. 83 CV 3098Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PLATT, District Judge.
The issue in this case is whether the limit on attorneys’ fees under 42 U.S.C. § 406 in Social Security cases is based on the amount of retroactive disability benefits before or after the deduction under 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-6 for Supplemental Security Income benefits previously paid.
On November 2, 1985, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”) awarded the plaintiff retroactive Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) benefits, under Title XVI of the Social Security Act (the “Act”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1381-83c, covering the period June 1982…
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