Berry v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a decision of another agency' is ordinarily entitled to great weight when that agency’s disability program bears a “marked similarity” to the Social Security disability program
• stating that an ALJ may not “discredit the claimant’s testimony as to subjective symptoms merely because they are unsupported by objective evidence”
• finding that the ALJ’s conclusion 9 that the claimant’s pain was not completely disabling because it was adequately 10 controlled with medications was valid and supported by the record
• “General findings are insufficient; rather, the 12 ALJ must identify what testimony is not credible and what evidence undermines the claimant's 13 complaints.”
• ALJ properly discounted VA disability rating where evidence that post-dated the disability rating demonstrated improvement
• an ALJ may give less weight to the VA’s decision if the ALJ provides “persuasive, specific, valid reasons for doing so that are supported by the record.”

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