Legal Opinion
Wilberto RAMOS COLON, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 29, 1988No. 87-1875PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal is brought by Attorney Juan Hernandez Rivera, who successfully represented a Social Security claimant in an effort to obtain past due benefits. In keeping with 42 U.S.C. § 406(b), when the past due benefits were awarded by the court, 25 percent of the total judgment, here $6,450.17, was withheld by the Social Security Administration for the payment of legal fees. Hernandez was awarded $3,000 for services which he rendered at the administrative level, and petitioned the district court for the remainder, $3,450.17, to cover the services which he rendered in the judicial proceedings.…
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