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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Rita Vargas De Rodriguez
Plaintiff

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BENJAMIN WAGNER CSBN 163581

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX 

Social Security Administration

MARLA K. LETELLIER, CSBN 234969

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8928

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Marla.Letellier@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FRESNO DIVISION

RITA VARGAS DE RODRIGUEZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting

Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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No. 1:12-CV-01469-AWI-BAM

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR THE 

AWARD AND PAYMENT OF 

ATTORNEY FEES AND EXPENSES 

PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL ACCESS 

TO JUSTICE ACT, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), 

AND COSTS PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 

1920

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties through their undersigned 

counsel, subject to the approval of the Court, that Plaintiff be awarded attorney fees in the 

amount of FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($5,500.00) under the Equal 

Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d). This amount represents compensation for 

all legal services rendered on behalf of Plaintiff by counsel in connection with this civil action, 

in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1920; 2412(d). 

After the Court issues an order for EAJA fees to Plaintiff, the government will consider 

the matter of Plaintiff’s assignment of EAJA fees to counsel Sengthiene Bosavanh, Esq 

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(Counsel). Pursuant to Astrue v. Ratliff, 560 U.S. 586, 598, 130 S.Ct. 2521, 177 L.Ed.2d 91 

(2010), the ability to honor the assignment will depend on whether the fees are subject to any 

offset allowed under the United States Department of the Treasury’s Offset Program. After the 

order for EAJA fees is entered, the government will determine whether they are subject to any 

offset.

Fees shall be made payable to Plaintiff, but if the Department of the Treasury 

determines that Plaintiff does not owe a federal debt, then the government shall cause the 

payment of fees, expenses and costs to be made directly to Counsel, pursuant to the assignment 

executed by Plaintiff. Any payments made shall be delivered to Counsel.

This stipulation constitutes a compromise settlement of Plaintiff’s request for EAJA 

attorney fees, and does not constitute an admission of liability on the part of Defendant under 

the EAJA or otherwise. Payment of the agreed amount shall constitute a complete release 

from, and bar to, any and all claims that Plaintiff and/or Counsel, including Counsel’s firm,

may have relating to EAJA attorney fees in connection with this action. 

This award is without prejudice to the rights of Counsel and/or Counsel’s firm to seek 

Social Security Act attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 406(b), subject to the savings clause 

provisions of the EAJA.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: January 31, 2015 SENGTHIENE BOSAVANH, Esq.

 By: /s/ Sengthiene Bosovanh

SENGTHIENE BOSOVANH

* By email authorization on 1/31/15

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Dated: January 31, 2015 BENJAMIN WAGNER

United States Attorney

 By: /s/ Marla K. Letellier

MARLA K. LETELLIER

Special Assistant United States Attorney

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ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED that Plaintiff shall be awarded 

attorney fees in the amount of FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($5,500.00), as 

authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), pursuant to Astrue v. Ratliff, 560 U.S. 586 (2010) and subject 

to the terms of the above-referenced Stipulation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 2, 2015 /s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe _

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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