Carmen Lewis v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

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• supporting the ALJ’s discounting of subjective pain complaints as not credible when the record as a whole, including medical record, did not support the complaints
• supporting the ALJ's discounting of subjective pain complaints as not credible when the record as a whole, including medical record, did not support the complaints
• explaining the claimant’s burden during the first four steps of the sequential process
• the ALJ is required to “detail the reasons for discrediting the testimony and set forth the inconsistencies found.”
• an ALJ must “set forth specifically a claimant’s limitations and . . . how those limitations affect her RFC”
• “Vocational expert testimony is not required at step four where the claimant retains the burden of proving she cannot perform her prior work.”

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