(SS)(PS) McCoy v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LEILA MARIE MCCOY, No. 2:23–cv–881–KJN Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IFP AND

DIRECTING E-SERVICE

v. (ECF No. 2.) COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY,

15 Defendant. 16 This case was referred to the undersigned pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); Fed. R. Civ. P. 72, and E.D. Cal. L.R. 302(c)(15) and Appx. A subsection (j). Plaintiff requests leave to proceed without prepayment of the filing fee under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. (ECF No. 2.) Plaintiff’s affidavit demonstrates an inability to prepay fees and costs or give security for them, and so is GRANTED. At the outset, the court notes that plaintiff’s complaint does not explicitly reference either Title II or XVI of the Social Security Act. (ECF No. 1.) However, plaintiff proceeds without the assistance of counsel in this action, and so the court construes the allegations broadly. Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 342 & n.7 (9th Cir. 2010) (liberal construction appropriate even post–Iqbal). From what the court…