Felisha Salchenberg v. Carolyn W. Colvin

MEMORANDUM

Felisha Salchenberg appeals the district court’s decision affirming an Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ’s”) denial of her application for Social Security disability insurance benefits and Supplemental Security Income. We review de novo, and “disturb the denial of benefits only if the decision contains legal error or is not supported by substantial evidence.” Tommasetti v. Astrue, 533 F.3d 1035, 1038 (9th Cir.2008) (quotation marks omitted). We affirm the district court.

I.

The ALJ provided “specific, clear and convincing” reasons, supported by substantial evidence, for finding that Sal-chenberg’s statements about her symptoms were not fully credible. Id. at 1039 (quotation marks omitted). Evidence supported the ALJ’s finding that Salchenberg exaggerated the effect of her tremors. Salchenberg reported in August 2007 that she no longer had a tremor, and some of her medical records that might reasonably be expected to contain references to tremors did not. The ALJ also properly found that “[c]ontrary to her assertions in her disability application, the claimant has reported improvement of her [mental health] symptoms.” Salchenberg’s medical records show that she…