Sipp v. Colvin

Filing 6

MEMORANDUM Order Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on July 19, 2016. Mailed notice (ph, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION

MATTHEW SIPP,
Plaintiff,
v.
CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Commissioner
of Social Security Administration,
Defendant.

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Case No. 16 C 7261

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Matthew Sipp ("Sipp") has filed a timely action against Social Security Administration
("SSA") Commissioner Carolyn Colvin, seeking to review the final action by SSA's Appeals
Council that denied review of an Administrative Law Judge's decision that had denied the Social
Security benefits that Sipp had claimed. Sipp has accompanied his Complaint, which utilized an
SSA form, with a Clerk's-Office-supplied form of In Forma Pauperis Application
("Application").
This Court has reviewed the Application and grants it conditionally -- a limitation
imposed because the Application, while otherwise appearing to support a claim of Sipp's
inability to pay the filing fee, contains a "yes" answer to a question inquiring whether Sipp has
more than $200 in cash or checking or savings accounts. That "yes" answer identifies Sipp as
having received a "school loan refund for school" without stating what that refund amounted to
(it could well have enabled Sipp to pay the $400 filing fee).
Accordingly Sipp is ordered to supplement the Application by a filing on or before
July 28, 2016 that reports both the amount received and the balance he had on hand from that

source on July 15, the date his Complaint and the Application were filed. That will enable this
Court to make a final rather than a tentative determination as to Sipp's entitlement to in forma
pauperis ("IFP") status. In the meantime, however, on the assumption that Sipp's supplement
will demonstrate his qualification for IFP treatment, this Court is contemporaneously issuing its
customary initial scheduling order.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: July 19, 2016

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