Rita A. Hogan v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that letter from claimant’s daughter that “essentially restate[d] the claims of pain” made by claimant was properly rejected
• holding there existed sufficiently good reason to defer to the ALJ’s credibility assessment when a claimant engaged in household activities inconsistent with her disabilities
• explaining that deference to ALJ is appropriate when ALJ explicitly discredits claimant and presents a reasonable basis for doing so
• explaining that deference to ALJ is appropriate when ALJ explicitly discredits claimant and presents a reasonable basis for doing so
• discrediting treating physician's opinion of limitations where \[n]one of these restrictions appear elsewhere in [the treating physician's] treatment records.\
• discrediting treating physician’s opinion of limitations'where “[n]one of these restrictions appear elsewhere in [the treating physician’s] treatment records.”

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