Legal Opinion
Berg v. Soc. SEC. Admin.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2018No. 17-2389PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rovner, Circuit Judge.
Shortly before Peggy Berg filed a petition for bankruptcy, the Social Security Administration ("SSA" or "Agency") reduced the payment of a back-award that it owed to her by the amount of an earlier overpayment that Berg owed to the Agency. Berg contested this setoff because it was taken during the ninety-day period before the filing of her bankruptcy petition. The bankruptcy court concluded that SSA permissibly recovered $17,385 of its overpayment but impermissibly improved its position by $2,015, and ordered the Agency to return that amount to Berg. This court granted a…
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