Soto v. Barnhart

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• remanding solely for calculation of benefits and not further proceedings where the ALJ's error was in interpreting and weighing treating physician evidence, not in failing to develop a complete record
• “When fibromyalgia is alleged, the credibility of a claimant's testimony regarding her symptoms must take on substantially increased significance in the ALJ's evaluation of the evidence.”
• “Because of the unavailability of clinical tests for fibromyalgia, an ALJ cannot reject a physician’s diagnosis of fibromyalgia on the grounds that it is ~ 27 ~ not supported by objective medical findings.”
• “An ‘ALJ’s observation that [a claimant] sat through the hearing without apparent pain, being that of a lay person, is entitled to but limited weight.’” (quoting Carroll v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., 705 F.2d 638, 645 (2d Cir. 1983)

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