Peare v. McFarland

FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves an application of the federal law governing a State’s offset of Social Security retirement benefits against unemployment compensation. Indiana is the State involved here. The same question has been presented in the Sixth and Ninth Circuits and decided in favor of the offset. Bowman v. Stumbo, 735 F.2d 192 (6th Cir.1984) and Rivera v. Becerra, 714 *355F.2d 887 (9th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1099, 104 S.Ct. 1591, 80 L.Ed.2d 124 (1984). We reach the same conclusion. The opposite decision was made in Edwards v. Valdez, 602 F.Supp. 361…