Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant was entitled to free legal aid and counsel in the EL objection proceedings before the administrative authority.
Decisão extraída
No. The case did not present exceptional legal or factual difficulties requiring a lawyer; assistance by the son was sufficient.
Fundamentação extraída
The decisive valuation issue could be corrected by submitting an existing contemporaneous appraisal, and the remaining asset questions were straightforward. The high threshold for administrative legal aid under Art. 37(4) ATSG was not met.