Reel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA TARSA R., Case No.: 25-cv-0781-AGS-BLM

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

v. IFP MOTION (ECF 2)

COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY,

7 Defendant.

Plaintiff moves to proceed without paying the court-filing fees in this Social Security appeal. Typically, parties instituting a civil action in a United States district court must pay $402 in filing fees.1 See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). But if granted the right to proceed in forma pauperis, a plaintiff can proceed without prepaying those fees. Rodriguez v. Cook, 169 F.3d 1176, 1177 (9th Cir. 1999). Plaintiff here has an average monthly income of $342, which is equal to plaintiff’s total monthly expenses. (ECF 2, at 2, 5.) Otherwise, plaintiff “cannot work” and is “currently homeless.” (Id. at 5.) This suffices to show that plaintiff cannot pay the filing fee. See Blount v. Saul, No. 21-CV-0679-BLM, 2021 WL 1561453, at *1 (S.D. Cal. Apr. 21, 2021) (“[A] party need not be completely…