Legal Opinion
Splude v. Social Security
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 20, 1999No. 98-1630PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
It is no accident that Title 42, containing the social security laws among other statutes, occupies four successive volumes of the United States Code (the Internal Revenue Code requires only two volumes). This case turns on the interplay of statutes establishing two different social security programs and several ancillary provisions. A brief primer will be helpful.
The most familiar social security program is federal old age, survivors and disability insurance, the core provisions of which were adopted as part of the New Deal in 1935. 42 U.S.C. §§ 401-433. It is based on…
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