Legal Opinion
Cora-Silva v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 26, 1986No. Civ. A. 84-1046-TPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TAURO, District Judge.
At issue is the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) method of calculating permissible attorney’s fees following a court award of contested disability benefits. SSA offsets the award of past disability benefits by the amount of other benefits received by the claimant. It then awards a percentage of that net figure as attorney’s fees. Claimant disagrees with this aproach, asserting that the fee percentage should be calculated on the basis of the gross benefit awarded.
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On January 10, 1983, plaintiff filed an application for social security disability insurance (SSDI)…
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- Rivera v. Secretary of Health & Human ServicesDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1988