Ethel Burnett v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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• holding that the ALJ is required to adequately explain his reasons for rejecting and discounting the evidence
• stating that the reviewing court must be able to understand whether probative evidence was either not credited or simply ignored
• finding remand appropriate where the ALJ “failed to mention or refute some of the contradictory medical evidence before him”
• ALJ’s “failure to consider and explain his reasons for discounting all of the pertinent evidence before him in making his residual functional capacity determination” may be reversible error
• allegations of pain must be consistent with objective medical evidence and an ALJ must explain the reasons for rejecting such testimony
• “[T]he ALJ must also consider and weigh all of the non- medical evidence before him.”

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