1 Conn. App. 604 - Russo v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2022
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Philpott v. Essex County Welfare Board · Kaplan v. Kaplan · Pasquariello v. Pasquariello · Louisiana v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Most-quoted passages
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“The payment by the (recipient) of his own liabilities out of his own funds, whether those funds consist of social security benefits or other types of income, is not prohibited by federal law. A social security disability benefit is a source of income designed to provide periodic sums from which the recipient can expend funds necessary for his own support or the support of his dependents. Although a creditor may not garnish a bank account in which social security recipient of disability benefits has deposited his checks; nothing in 42 U.S.C. § 407 prevents the use of funds, when received, to pay loans or debts for which the beneficiary is obligated where the agreement to repay does not delineate the source of repayment. Here, the court’s order does not subject the social security benefits to legal process or transfer control of them to anyone else or designate them as the source of the payments. The order, therefore, does not contravene the federal statute, (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A social security disability benefit is a source of income designed to provide periodic sums from which the recipient can expend funds necessary for his own support or the support of his dependents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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