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PAULA S. LINDEN v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 17, 2025

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Elizabeth L. Luckenbach, Alison F. Duffy, DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC, Troy, Michigan, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Stacy A. Morgan, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Judge(s): THAPAR, BUSH, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan at Detroit

THAPAR, Circuit Judge. Paula Linden filed for Social Security benefits a few years before she reached her full retirement age. Had she waited to file until she reached the full retirement age, she would be receiving bigger monthly checks than she currently receives. Now, Linden claims that she filed early only because the Social Security Administration falsely told her that filing early wouldn’t cause her to receive smaller checks. Thus, she wants the agency to increase her monthly pay to the amount she would have received if she had waited to file. Because the statutory scheme doesn’t allow for that result, we affirm.

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