Verna B. TERRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that this Court has discretion to remand for further fact finding, if the record is unclear as to a claimant’s entitlement to disabil- ity benefits
• noting that the 22 court has the “discretion to remand so that the Secretary may further develop the record”
• remanding for payment of benefits 26 where seven years had passed since claimant filed for benefits
• granting benefits where claimant applied for benefits four years prior, despite lack of development regarding a possible job
• granting benefits where claimant applied for benefits four years prior, despite lack of development regarding a possible job
• using 18 discretion to grant benefits where claimant was 64 and applied for benefits four years prior, 19 despite lack of development regarding a potential job

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