Disabled Rights Union v. Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Kenneth Kizer State of California

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Federal disability determinations control state Medicaid. The district court enjoined a change in the notice which the Social Security Administration sends when it cuts off “supplementary security income” (SSI), the federal disability program. The Social Security Administration, in accord with its governing statute, uses a notice form which says that appeals must be within sixty days. The court required that the state give notice that appeals from the federal denial could be at the later of sixty days from the federal denial, or sixty days from when the State of…