Maria TEJADA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that “POMS guidelines ‘ha[ve] no legal force, and [they] do [ ] not bind the [Commissioner]’ ”
• holding that the policies found in the POMS “have no legal force and they do not bind the Commissioner”
• concluding that peripheral neuropathy of the feet rendered claimant unable to perform a job involving prolonged periods of standing, and reversing ALJ’s contrary determination as unsupported by substantial evidence
• noting that in determining presumptive disability, the “inquiry is whether, based solely on medical evidence, the claimant has an impairment that is listed in” Appendix 1 of the regulations
• summarizing the holding of and citing with approval Pascariello v. Heckler , 621 F.Supp. 1032 , 1036 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)
• summarizing the holding of and citing with approval Pascariello v. Heckler , 621 F.Supp. 1032 , 1036 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)

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