Kathleen Thrasher v. Carolyn Colvin

MEMORANDUM

Kathleen Thrasher appeals the district court’s judgment affirming the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of her application for Supplemental Security Income. We review de novo the district court’s order affirming the ALJ’s denial of benefits. Molina v. Astrue, 674 F.3d 1104, 1110 (9th Cir.2012). We may “reverse only if the ALJ’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole or if the ALJ applied the wrong legal standard.” Id. We will not reverse an ALJ’s decision on account of an error that is harmless. Id. at 1111 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Thrasher argues that the ALJ’s nondisa-bility determination is unsupported by substantial evidence because the ALJ failed to consider properly the evidence from Thrasher’s mother and Thrasher’s past suicide attempts. She maintains that when the evidence is properly considered, she fits the description of a hypothetical individual that the vocational expert' testified would be “preclude[d]” from all the jobs he had testified to — in other words, she is “unable to engage in sustained work activity for a full eight-hour workday on a regular and consistent…