Aychillhum

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MARSHA AYCHILLHUM, Case No. 23-cv-01341-BAS-DDL

Plaintiff, ORDER:

(1) GRANTING MOTION TO 13 v. PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS (ECF No. 3);

SSI,

(2) DISMISSING COMPLAINT

WITH LEAVE TO AMEND;

Defendant. AND

(3) DENYING WITHOUT

PREJUDICE MOTION TO

APPOINT COUNSEL

18 (ECF No. 2)

19 Plaintiff Marsha Aychillhum is self-represented. She filed this lawsuit concerning her SSI—Supplemental Security Income. (ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff also filed a Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis (“IFP”)—without paying the filing fee—and a Motion to Appoint Counsel. (ECF Nos. 2, 3.) For the reasons explained below, the Court grants Plaintiff’s Motion to Proceed IFP, dismisses her Complaint with leave to amend, and denies without prejudice the Motion to Appoint Counsel. I. Motion for Leave to Proceed IFP Under 28 U.S.C. § 1915, a litigant who because of indigency is unable to pay proceed without making such payment. The determination of indigency falls…