Gary Phillips v. Carolyn W. Colvin

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• affirming ALJ’s rejection of medical equivalence because Phillips did not have any “physical or mental disorders that impose additional and significant work-related limitation of function”
• affirming the ALJ’s determina tion that the claimant did not meet the listing for “mental retardation,” despite a prior evaluation indicating he had a full-scale IQ of 64, because substantial evidence showed his intellectual functioning had improved since the evaluation
• an impairment is not severe when treatment enables the individual to engage in activities inconsistent with disability
• impairments sufficiently managed with treatment are not severe

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