Heather U. v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration

Summary

The United States District Court for the District of Oregon remands a Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits case for further proceedings. The court holds that the ALJ failed to address and resolve significant discrepancies between the vocational expert’s job-number testimony and contrary job-number evidence submitted by the plaintiff.

Holdings

1. When a claimant presents significant and probative evidence countering a vocational expert's job-number testimony, the ALJ must address and resolve the discrepancies and inconsistencies between the two sets of evidence.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the ALJ erred at step five by accepting the vocational expert's job-number testimony without addressing and resolving significant and probative contrary job-number evidence submitted by the plaintiff.

Disposition

reversed_and_remanded