Betty L. Varney v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• stating that if the record is complete, the court may award benefits rather than remand for further consideration
• “Being required to remand for that purpose,” the ALJ may also have “the opportunity to make specific findings regarding the claimant’s [ ] testimony.”
• awarding benefits because “no further proceedings are necessary to develop the administrative record” where the expert’s response on cross-examination established that there were no jobs the claimant could perform
• “Delaying the payment of 26 benefits by requiring multiple administrative proceedings that are duplicative and unnecessary 27 only serves to cause the applicant further damage—financial, medical, and emotional.”
• remanding for benefits where plaintiff’s attorney “amended the hypothetical question to reflect [plaintiff’s] limitations” and VE responded that “such an individual would not be able to perform any of the jobs” previously identified
• describing the credit-as-true rule as perpetuating this goal of social security law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).