Cheryl Lowe v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner, Social Security Administration

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• holding that ALJ need not discuss methodically each Polaski factor so long as factors are acknowledged and examined
• noting that the ALJ must make “explicit findings” regarding the claimant’s past work and “compare those demands” with the claimant’s RFC “to determine whether [he] could perform the relevant duties.”
• stating that the “ALJ may not discount a claimant’s complaints solely because they are not fully supported by the objective evidence, but the complaints may be discounted based on inconsistencies in the record as whole”
• finding the ALJ was not required to discuss “methodically each Polaski consideration, so long as he acknowledged and examined those considerations before discounting [claimant’s] subjective complaints.”
• remanding where the reviewing court could not determine the factual basis for the ALJ’s finding that the claimant could return to her past relevant work as a laundromat manager, despite her inability to perform repetitive hand movements
• noting an ALJ must consider Polaski factors before discounting any subjective complaints

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).