T.B.W. v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Colorado reviewed the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of T.B.W.’s application for supplemental security income. The court held that the ALJ adequately evaluated the claimant’s migraines, including whether they medically equaled Listing 11.02 and the consistency of the claimant’s symptom statements with the record. The court affirmed the Commissioner’s decision.

Holdings

1. The administrative law judge did not err in determining that Plaintiff's migraines did not meet or medically equal Listing 11.02 because the record contained no evidence of the altered consciousness required for dyscognitive seizures under Listing 11.02B.
2. The administrative law judge properly evaluated Plaintiff's statements about the limiting effects of her migraines and reasonably found that the medical and other evidence did not support the degree of limitation alleged.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the administrative law judge adequately explained the conclusion that Plaintiff's migraines did not meet or medically equal Listing 11.02.
2. Whether the administrative law judge properly evaluated Plaintiff's statements concerning the intensity, persistence, and limiting effects of her migraine symptoms.

Disposition

affirmed