Delgado v. Bowen

OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

This case is before us on appeal from a decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services denying widow’s insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. The facts of the case are as follows:

Plaintiff and the wage earner lived together as man and wife for forty years, during which they had eleven children. Together they ran a small business until the wage earner became disabled in 1968. After that time they lived on the wage earner’s Social Security disability benefits until his death in 1971. Plaintiff filed an application for widow’s benefits in…