Legal Opinion
Christi Haas, as Parent and Natural Guardian of Scott M. Glenn, II v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 15, 1996No. 95-1918PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A dependent child of a wage earner is entitled to “child’s insurance benefits” under the Social Security Act if the wage earner is insured under the Act and dies, becomes disabled, or reaches the age of 65. 42 U.S.C. § 402(d). Problems of determining entitlement sometimes arise when the .wage earner dies and was not married to the child’s mother. The Act contains an exhaustive list of methods of establishing entitlement to child insurance benefits in such a case: proof that the wage earner would have been married to the child’s mother but for a technical deficiency in the…
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