Saunders v. Schweiker

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

ELFVIN, District Judge.

This is an action challenging the determination of the Appeals Council of the Social Security Administration to reduce the plaintiff’s Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) grant on the stated basis that plaintiff was receiving $30 monthly in income in kind, because she paid only $100 monthly rent, while the fair market value of her apartment was $130. Plaintiff, who seeks to represent a class of all SSI recipients in New York State whose grants have been reduced on the basis that they had received “in kind” income through the payment of…