Emaline M. Walker v. Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Emaline Walker appeals from an order of the district court affirming the decision of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) denying her claim for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits. She contends, and we agree, that her inability to participate effectively in her hearing before the administrative law judge, her then lack of counsel and the administrative law judge’s failure to explore facts relevant to her claim of disability provide sufficient grounds to remand her case for a new hearing.

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Mrs. Walker is a fifty-four-year-old woman with a…