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The federal Medicaid statutes, which provide for the assignment of rights to third-party payments, but prohibit placing a lien on a Medicaid recipient's property, limit the State's recovery to only those portions of the payments made for medical expenses.
Denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits, under the Social Security Act, is affirmed where plaintiff retained the residual functional capacity to perform light work and was noncompliant with prescribed treatment without good reason.
Denial of plaintiff's claim for disability insurance benefits is reversed where the administrative law judge's findings are not supported by the claim of mental retardation was considered.
Defendant-Commissioner's determination that plaintiff did not meet the earnings requirements for social security disability insurance benefits is reversed where the administrative law judge failed to find that plaintiff's second amended 1993 tax return was fraudulent.
Denial of plaintiff's application for supplemental security income is affirmed where the Administrative Law Judge's conclusion that plaintiff is not under a disability as defined by the Social Security Act is supported by substantial evidence.
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Defendant-Commissioner's decision that plaintiff's childhood supplemental security income benefits should terminate is affirmed where her disabilities are no longer medically or functionally equal to mental retardation.
A denial of supplemental security income benefits is reversed and remanded with directions to develop the record to determine what level of work, if any, claimant can perform where the administrative law judge's conclusions were not supported by substantial evidence in the record.
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Denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits is affirmed where substantial evidence supported the administrative law judge's finding that plaintiff's complaints were not fully credible and that his symptoms were not as ailing as he alleged.
Denial of plaintiff's claim for supplemental social security income is affirmed where the administrative law judge did not err in finding that alcohol abuse was a contributing material factor to plaintiff's disability and that she was not disabled apart from her alcoholism.
