Key legal question
Whether a hypothetical income may be imputed to the claimant's wife for EL purposes despite her health limitations.
Extracted holding
Yes. The wife was expected to exploit her remaining earning capacity; without sufficient job-search efforts and use of labor-market placement, imputation was justified.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on family-law support duties and the presumption that remaining work capacity is economically usable unless intensive, unsuccessful job search is shown. The wife's age, education, language skills, work history, and partial psychiatric impairment did not make employment impossible.