Alter v. Department of Health and Human Services

MEMORANDUM DECISION

GOETTEL, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this action challenges the decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services granting him disability status for Social Security benefits, as well as the report and recommendation of the magistrate recommending that the Government’s motion for judgment on the pleadings upholding the award be granted. The plaintiff, who has been found totally disabled and unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of paranoid schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses, has prosecuted his appeal personally, filing very…