Dimicoe Whitfield v. Carolyn Colvin

MEMORANDUM

Claimant Dimicoe C. Whitfield appeals 'the district court’s judgment affirming the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of his application for supplemental security income under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. At step five of the sequential evaluation process, the administrative law judge (ALJ) found that Whitfield could perform jobs that exist in significant numbers in the national economy. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Molina v. Astrue, 674 F.3d 1104, 1110 (9th Cir.2012), and we affirm.

Whitfield contends that the ALJ erred in assessing his residual functional capacity (RFC). The ALJ’s determination that Whitfield had the RFC to perform light work “except he requires simple unskilled work that is performed without frequent public contact” was consistent with the restrictions identified by the examining doctors. See Stubbs-Danielson v. Astrue, 539 F.3d 1169, 1173-75 (9th Cir.2008); Burch v. Barnhart, 400 F.3d 676, 682-84 (9th Cir.2005) (ALJ adequately considered obesity in RFC determination where record contained “no evidence ... of any functional limitations as a result of ... obesity that the ALJ failed to consider”).…