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Good Cause or No Good Cause? You decide — Social Security Appeal

R was a medical doctor who applied for old age social security insurance benefits in 1960. His application was denied…

Melvin Cook

Multiple Streams of Self-Employment Income and Social Security

Tyndall and his wife resided on a farm until 1960, when they gave the farm to their two sons. In…

Melvin Cook

Misnomer in Divorce Decree and Spouse’s Social Security Benefits

J became entitled to social security retirement benefits in October 1958. His wife, A, became entitled to wife’s social security…

Melvin Cook

Reinstatement of Wife’s Social Security Benefits

A woman’s birthdate was April 1901, so her normal retirement age for social security purposes was April 1966. She became…

Melvin Cook

Deemed Spouse for One Year and Social Security Benefits

R married B in 1912 in Ohio. Many years later, in 1941, L underwent a marriage ceremony to R in…

Melvin Cook

Financial Support and Child’s Social Security Benefits

R, a fully insured worker, died in Maryland in 1964, leaving behind five illegitimate children. The children’s mother, W, filed…

Melvin Cook

Establishing Paternity for Child’s Social Security Benefits

R and W commenced living together in 1958 and continued living together for about one year before they separated. They…

Melvin Cook

Unconstitutional State Law and Social Security Benefits

A and B were happily married in the 60’s in a state that had an anti-miscegenation statute (a law prohibiting…

Melvin Cook

Divorced Widow’s Social Security Benefits

R and W were married in 1923 and divorced in 1938. They remarried in 1941 and were together for six…

Melvin Cook

New and Material Evidence and Social Security Benefits

A child, C, was born to its mother, B, and it’s father, R, who was not married to B. B…

Melvin Cook