Legal Opinion
Bowen v. Owens
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 19, 1986No. 84-1905PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
Certain provisions of the Social Security Act in effect between 1979 and 1983 authorized payment of survivor’s benefits from a wage earner’s account to a widowed spouse who remarried after age 60, but not to a similarly situated divorced widowed spouse. The question in this case is whether those provisions violated the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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The Social Security Act (Act) originally provided only primary benefits to qualified wage earners. Congress later provided secondary benefits to wives, widows, dependent children, and surviving parents…
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