Perez

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

(Social Security)

Plaintiff has filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g) seeking review of the decision of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (Commissioner) denying her application for disability insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. Defendant has answered and the parties have filed cross-motions for summary judgment. For the reasons discussed below, I conclude that the Commissioner’s decision should be reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings.

BACKGROUND

On July 30, 1992, plaintiff filed an application for disability benefits, claiming disability since September 12, 1990, due to carpal tunnel syndrome. (Administrative Record (A.R.) 96, 138.) Initially and upon reconsideration, her application was denied, and she received a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) on September 12, 1994. (A.R.31, 56-74.) In a written decision dated March 24, 1995, the ALJ found that plaintiff had the following impairments: severe back pain, status post carpal tunnel syndrome associated with degenerative changes of the hand, rheumatoid arthritis, venous insufficiency to the legs, chronic Bell’s palsy, and…