Question juridique clé
Whether a hypothetical income may be imputed to the claimant's wife for EL purposes despite her health limitations.
Solution extraite
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.
Motifs extraits
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.