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March v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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462 F. App'x 671
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 19, 201110-35980California1,258 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

Vickie March appeals the decision of the district court affirming the Social Security Commissioner’s denial of her claim for disability benefits. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 .

March challenges the administrative law judge’s (“ALJ”) determination on a number of grounds, many of which we need not reach. But because the ALJ’s determination of March’s residual functional capacity (“RFC”) did not adequately account for certain limitations, we reverse and remand for further proceedings.

1. March first argues that the ALJ improperly discounted three types of evidence when determining her limitations: (1) March’s testimony concerning such severe symptoms as an inability to sit for longer than 15 minutes or walk more than the length of a grocery store aisle at a time; (2) a corroborating lay witness statement and testimony by the man with whom March lives; and (3) two physician reports.

The ALJ properly rejected this evidence. March’s testimony about the severity of her symptoms conflicted with evidence of her daily activities, including evidence that she supplied. It also conflicted with March’s own estimates of her functional limitations to the…

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