Soria

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Plaintiff has filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g) seeking review of the denial of Disability Insurance Benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (Commissioner). Defendant has answered, and the parties have filed cross-motions for summary judgment. For the reasons discussed below, the Commissioner’s decision is affirmed and the complaint is dismissed.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiff filed applications for benefits on February 28, 1992, claiming to have been disabled since November 15, 1990, due to back, neck and knee injuries. (Administrative Record (A.R.) 76, 79.) After plaintiffs claim was denied initially and on reconsideration, a hearing was held before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) on September 8, 1994. (A.R.38-75.) In a decision dated January 25, 1995, the ALJ found that plaintiff met the disability insured status require ments of the Social Security Act on November 15, 1990, the date he alleged he became unable to work, that plaintiff had not engaged in substantial gainful activity since 1991, and that the medical evidence establishes that plaintiff has neck, back and shoulder pain,…