(SS) Canessa v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 VICTORIA VERONICA CANESSA, No. 2:23-cv-02052-SCR Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER LELAND DUDEK, Acting Commissioner of Social Security,1 14 Defendant.

16 Plaintiff seeks judicial review of a final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”), denying her application for supplemental security income (“SSI”) under Title XVI of the Social Security Act (the “Act”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1381-1383f. For the reasons that follow, the Court will GRANT Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and DENY the Commissioner’s cross-motion for summary judgment. The matter will be reversed and remanded to the Commissioner for further proceedings. I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Plaintiff applied for SSI in May 2020, alleging disability beginning May 14, 2020. Administrative Record (“AR”) 294. The application was disapproved initially, and on 26 1 Leland Dudek became the Acting Commissioner of Social Security in February…