BERG v. SOCIAL SEC. ADMIN.

No. 17-2389.

900 F.3d 864 (2018)

Peggy BERG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

DECIDED August 17, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kyle Hanson , Attorney, Hanson Law Group LLP, Barrington, for Debtor-Appellant.

Julie Loraine Bentz , Attorney, Eric Truett , Attorney, Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, Region V, Chicago, Richard Davis Humphrey , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, for Appellee.

Before Bauer, Rovner, and Sykes, Circuit Judges.


Shortly before Peggy Berg filed a petition for bankruptcy, the Social Security Administration ("SSA" or "Agency") reduced the payment of a back-award that it owed to her by the amount of an earlier overpayment that Berg owed to the Agency. Berg contested this setoff because it was taken during the ninety-day period before...

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