Joyce Davis v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security Administration

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• holding that an ALJ may properly take into account that a claimant failed to make significant efforts to seek medical treatment
• upholding an ALJ’s discounting of claimant’s subjective complaints of pain because of discrepancy between claimant’s allegations and her treatment history, medicinal selections, and daily activities
• determining there was significant evidence available to support the ALJ's conclusion that the claimant did not suffer from a severe mental impairment, thus discrediting the lone IQ score indicating borderline intelligence
• “Allegations of pain may be discredited by evidence of daily activities inconsistent with such allegations.”
• subjective complaints of pain may be discredited by performance of daily activities that are inconsistent with such complaints
• “Allegations of pain may be discredited by evidence of daily activities inconsistent with such allegations.”

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