United States Seventh Circuit

Under the Social Security Act (the Act), state hospitals appointed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) as representative payees may, without a recipient-s voluntary consent, deduct a portion of the recipient-s Social Security benefits to pay for the cost of the recipient's care in a state institution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2002
• Decided 02/11/2002
• Published 02/11/2002

Judges

• FLAUM, Chief Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and HARLINGTON WOOD, JR., and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth J. Falk (argued), Jacquelyn E. Bowie Suess, Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, IN, for Ivy Mason., David L. Steiner (argued), Office of Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, IN, for Peter Sybinski and Janet Corson.