Bonnie Hilkemeyer v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an ALJ is not required to incorporate into its residual functional capacity determination any non-severe impairments that do not impose limitations on a claimant’s ability to work
• holding an ALJ is not required to incorporate into the RFC any non-severe impairments that do not impose limitations on a claimant’s ability to work
• stating that courts should not substitute their own judgment or findings of fact for the ALJ’s
• finding that there is no error in declining to incorporate a mild impairment into an RFC if the record does not support any functional limitations caused by the impairment
• finding the “ALJ’s decision not to incorporate [the] mild pulmonary dysfunction in the RFC, as well as in the hypothetical posed to the VE, was not error because the record [did] not suggest there were any limitations caused by this non-severe impairment”
• finding the “ALJ’s decision not to incorporate [the] mild pulmonary dysfunction in the RFC, as well as in the hypothetical posed to the VE, was not error because the record [did] not suggest there were any limitations caused by this nonsevere impairment”

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