Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/422/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 10:49:11+00:00

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Twenty days after this Court granted a writ of certiorari, 409 U.S. 841, Congress amended the relevant statutory provisions, § 202(d)(8) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 402(d)(8). See § 111(a), Social Security Amendments of 1972 (Oct. 30, 1972), Pub.L. 92-603, 86 Stat. 1329. The writ of certiorari heretofore granted is dismissed as improvidently granted.
however, is the patchwork nature of the relief that Congress has provided.
if the child was living with the beneficiary "for the year immediately before the month in which began the period of [compensable] disability. . . ." § 111(a)(8)(D)(ii) (II). Petitioner began receiving disability insurance benefits in July, 1957. His adopted daughter was not born until 1965, however, and petitioner will accordingly not benefit under the terms of § 111(a).
Section 111(b) does not alter 42 U.S.C. § 402(d)(8) as to the applications filed before October, 1972, for benefits accruing before October 30, 1972. Such an application is before us in this case. Petitioner is therefore entitled to benefits under the former statute, if there is merit to his claim that the old § 402(d)(8) distinctions among types of adoption supervision are constitutionally infirm.
Because the new Act does not provide coverage for petitioner's child, but the old Act remains applicable to the claim before us, I would reach the merits.
Social Security Amendment of 1972, Pub.L. 92-603, 86 Stat. 1329, § 111.
"The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to monthly benefits payable under title II of the Social Security Act for months after December 1967 on the basis of an application filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted; except that such amendments shall not apply with respect to benefits for any month before the month in which this Act is enacted unless such application is filed before the close of the sixth month after the month in which this Act is enacted."
"(8) In the case of --"
"(A) . . . ."
"(B) an individual entitled to disability insurance benefits. . . . a child of such individual adopted after such individual became entitled to such . . . benefits shall be deemed not to meet the requirements of clause (i). . . of paragraph (1)(C) unless such child --"
"(D)(i) was legally adopted by such individual in an adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction within the United States,"
"(ii) was living with such individual in the United States and receiving at least one-half of his support from such individual . . . for the year immediately before . . . the month in which such individual became entitled to disability insurance benefits, and"
"(iii) had not attained the age of 18 before he began living with such individual."

References: § 202
 § 402
 § 111
 § 111
 § 111
 § 402
 § 402
 § 111