(SS) Valencia v. Commissioner of Social Security

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CINDY LEE VALENCIA, Case No. 1:19-cv-00295-JDP Plaintiff, ORDER ON SOCIAL SECURITY APPEAL v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL

SECURITY,

15 Defendant. 16 Claimant Cindy Lee Valencia seeks judicial review of a denial by the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) of her application for disability insurance benefits. ECF No. 13. She alleges that the SSA Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) erred in failing to resolve an apparent conflict between testimony of a vocational expert (“VE”) about jobs she could perform and the requirements of those jobs as defined in SSA’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles (“DOT”). We heard argument on February 19, 2020. Having reviewed the record, administrative transcript, briefs of the parties, and applicable law, and having considered arguments raised at the hearing, we affirm the decision of the ALJ. At a November 1, 2017 administrative hearing, the ALJ asked the VE what jobs claimant 26 1 The parties have consented to entry of…