Legal Opinion
Bervin ALLEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 14, 1992No. 90-2130PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Bervin Allen is fifty-seven years old and has a bad back. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) denied Allen’s application for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) after an administrative law judge (AU) found that, despite his complaint of severe back pain, Allen could perform a full range of light work. Allen appealed the AU’s decision, and the district court affirmed. We vacate and remand.
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In 1987, at the time of his administrative hearing, Allen was fifty-three years old and had an eleventh-grade education. He had last worked in 1982 at a glass company…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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