Yeiter ex rel. Yeiter v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether plaintiff-appellant Ida B. Yeiter (“plaintiff”) is entitled to disability insurance benefits retroactive to the onset of her disability or is limited, as provided in 42 U.S.C. § 423(b) and as the District Court found, to benefits retroactive to one year prior to filing of her application. We AFFIRM the District Court’s judgment.

Plaintiff is mentally and functionally incapacitated from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on November 14, 1972. Her husband, appointed her guardian in March, 1973, filed an…