Rollins

ORDER

Plaintiff has filed a complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 405 (g) seeking review of the Secretary’s denial of disability insurance benefits. Defendant has answered, and the parties have filed cross motions for summary judgment. For the reasons discussed below, the Secretary’s decision is affirmed and the complaint is dismissed.

BACKGROUND

On March 13, 1990, plaintiff applied for disability insurance benefits, claiming that he had been disabled since November 12, 1986, due to a combination of physical and mental impairments, including severe depression. (Administrative Record, A.R., 116.) After his application was denied, he filed a request for reconsideration and advised the Social Security Administration that he had actually become disabled on January 9, 1986. (A.R. 125,167.) When his request for reconsideration was denied, plaintiff filed a request for a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (AL J) and again revised the onset date of his disability, this time stating that it began in December, 1982 or January, 1983. (A.R.129.)

The AL J determined that plaintiff was still performing “substantial gainful activity,” and was therefore “not disabled” at step one of the…