Marion P. Morris, O/b/o Linda G. Morris v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Plaintiff, a recipient of social security disability benefits since 1957, adopted *777his granddaughter in 1966 and sought child’s insurance benefits for her immediately after the adoption was decreed. His application under the then existing statute was denied because the requirement of the statute that the adoption occur within two years after plaintiff had become entitled to disability benefits was not met. In 1968 the Social Security Amendments of 1967, 81 Stat. 821, became effective, and they extended child’s insurance benefits to after-adopted children of disability beneficiaries regardless…