Thomas Scott Henry v. Commissioner of Social Security

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ALJ committed reversible error in failing to consider whether a claimant’s failure to seek treatment was due to his financial circumstances
• holding that the ALJ erred in discounting the claimant’s pain testimony without fully and fairly developing the record regarding the claimant’s financial ability to pursue a more aggressive treatment
• stating that a claimant’s use of pain medication is not consistent with a finding that treatment was conservative
• finding that ALJ erred in discrediting medical evidence as inconsistent with a claimant’s “limited and conservative treatment” without developing the record or addressing the claimant’s statement of inability to pay for continued medical treatment
• reversing and remanding for further consideration of the record where the ALJ’s decision “neither explicitly nor implicitly alluded to [the claimant’s] vision limitations”
• agreeing with Magistrate Judge’s ruling that the claimant’s use of tramadol, a narcotic-like medication, contradicted the ALJ’s finding that the claimant’s treatment was conservative

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