(SS) Applegate v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JON JON CONWAY APPLEGATE, No. 2:18-cv-00581 JAM CKD Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security, 15 Defendant.

17 Plaintiff seeks judicial review of a final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”) denying an application for Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) under Title XVI of the Social Security Act (“Act”). For the reasons discussed below, the undersigned recommends that plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment be denied and the Commissioner’s cross-motion for summary judgment be granted. BACKGROUND Plaintiff, born in 1966, applied on November 4, 2013 for SSI and disability insurance benefits, alleging disability beginning August 29, 2013. Administrative Transcript (“AT”) 18, 28. Plaintiff alleged he was unable to work due to depression, schizophrenia, hearing voices, back injury, and right knee injury. AT 93. In a decision dated September 21, 2016, the ALJ 28 …