In Re Barfknecht

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• rejecting an interpretation of the good faith standard when the “proposed reading of the good faith standard would swallow up these other explicit statutory treatments, effectively rendering them nullities”
• non-inclusion of social security income without more cannot constitute abuse of the bankruptcy process
• express exclusion of SSI from income inhibits a court from considering the income and surplus derived from the SSI as part of the good faith analysis
• a debtor’s retention of Social Security income, while 13 paying creditors less than 100 percent, is not evidence of bad 14 faith; the Code specifically allows exclusion of Social Security 15 income from disposable income calculation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).