Legal Opinion
Rosie WILDER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 29, 1995No. 95-1520PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a denial of social security disability benefits. The facts are unusual. In August 1986, Rosie Wilder, who was then 47 years old, was employed as an armed, uniformed security guard in a retirement home. That month, she won $2 million in the Illinois lottery, payable at the rate of $81,000 a year (the rest being withheld, we assume, for income tax). Later that month she quit her job, and she has not worked since. In the same month, she adopted a grandson whose mother (one of Wilder’s daughters) was a drug addict. Wilder sought disability benefits in…
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3Cited by193 opinions
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