Sanchez v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. “as it is used in defining the waiting period for Social Security disability insurance benefits means a period of time measured from the first day of a month to the last day of a month. Therefore, the five month waiting period for a wage earner who is disabled on a date other than the first day of a month begins on the first day on the succeeding month. 3 The wage earner, Chris Sanchez, 2 brought this action in United States district court complaining that the Secretary of Health and Human Services had misinterpreted the statutory definition of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanchez v. Schweiker

2. “the earliest period of five consecutive calendar months ... throughout which the individual ... has been under a disability,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanchez v. Schweiker

3. “means a month's period of time, whether it be thirty-one, thirty, or twenty-eight days.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sanchez v. Schweiker