Nancy Prochaska v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that an ALJ’s failure to make the relevant inquiries under SSR 00-4p leaves “unresolved potential incon- sistenc[ies] in the evidence”
• concluding that an ALJ's finding that 5 claimant could perform jobs beyond his RFC limitation was not harmless error
• concluding that the ALJ appropriately considered diverse factors in his credibility determination, including the claimant’s hearing testimony and the objective medical records, even though all the claimant’s allegations were not discussed in the ALJ’s written opinion
• holding that it was harmless error for the ALJ to fail to specifically address the claimant’s obesity because he adopted limitations suggested by doctors who considered the claimant’s obesity
• holding that the ALJ’s failure to explicitly address claimant’s obesity was harmless because she failed to point to any evidence supporting her claim that her obesity significantly exacerbated her physical impairments
• noting that a claimant is not required to address an apparent conflict during the hearing, as this burden is solely on the ALJ

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