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Disability benefits

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit remanded to the Social Security Administration a former U.S. Coast Guard member’s suit arising from her request for disability benefits based on her post-traumatic stress disorder, which was diagnosed after a fellow service member raped her.

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