Jeffrey A. v. Commissioner of Social Security

Summary

The document is a Report and Recommendation by a United States magistrate judge in a Social Security disability benefits appeal. It recommends reversing and remanding the Commissioner’s decision because the administrative law judge failed to adequately analyze the claimant’s ability to sit, stand, and walk and failed to build a logical bridge between the evidence concerning his depressive and anxiety disorders and the residual functional capacity assessment.

Holdings

1. The ALJ failed to perform an adequate function-by-function analysis of Jeffrey's ability to sit, stand, and walk, despite evidence contradicting the finding that he could perform light work.
2. The ALJ failed to build an accurate and logical bridge between the evidence concerning Jeffrey's severe depressive and anxiety disorders and the RFC limitations.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the ALJ adequately analyzed Jeffrey's ability to sit, stand, and walk before finding that he could perform light work.
2. Whether the ALJ built an accurate and logical bridge between the evidence concerning Jeffrey's depressive disorder and anxiety disorder and the RFC limitations.
3. Whether the Commissioner's denial of disability insurance benefits should be reversed and remanded under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

Disposition

reversed_and_remanded