Giordano v. Schweiker

MEMORANDUM

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This action is brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 405(g) and 1383(c)(3) to review a final decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”) denying plaintiff’s claim for disability benefits under Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act.

I

The plaintiff is a sixty-one-year-old woman with a seventh-grade education who was employed as a buttonhole maker. She filed an application for disability insurance benefits on January 29, 1979, alleging disability beginning in June 1974. 1 She also applied for supplemental security income benefits…