Yourek v. Barnhart

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• finding the claims representative’s observation that claimant had no difficulty completing his application was insufficient evidence for the ALJ to conclude claimant was literate
• reversing the ALJ’s denial of disability benefits where the ALJ failed to ascertain claimant’s literacy level by asking him to read a brief article or write a note after claimant testified, he “was not a good reader but could read words slowly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).