Phyllis Cox v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security Administration

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• holding that the parties must focus their attention on claimant's condition at the time she last met insured status requirements
• holding that the parties must focus their attention on claimant's condition at the time she last met insured status requirements
• holding records and medical opinions dated outside the relevant period can only be used in “helping to elucidate a medical condition during the time for which benefits might be rewarded”
• holding records and medical opinions dated outside the relevant period can only be used in “helping to elucidate a medical condition during the time for which benefits might be rewarded”
• stating “[e]vidence from outside the insured period can be used in helping to elucidate a medical condition during the time for which benefits might be rewarded”
• Claimant “has the burden to offer the evidence necessary to make a valid decision about [his] claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).