Legal Opinion
Robert T. HUSTON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1988No. 86-1741PublishedCited by 237 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
The claimant, Robert Huston, is an overweight sixty-one-year-old man with a bad back. He applied for Social Security disability insurance benefits in 1984, eight years after the date that his insured status expired. This eight year gap creates some difficulty and confusion, because while substantial evidence exists of the disabling character of the claimant’s back problems at the time of his application for insurance benefits, the claimant’s eligibility for continuing benefits since 1976 turns on the severity of his back problems in 1975-76, not in 1984.
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2Cases cited17 opinions
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3Cited by237 opinions
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