United States Second Circuit

In an appeal from a judgment affirming the Social Security Administration’s denial of petitioner's application for Supplemental Security Income disability benefits on the basis of her alleged intellectual disability, judgment is affirmed where: 1) evidence of a petitioner’s cognitive limitations as an adult establishes a rebuttable presumption that those limitations arose before the petitioner turned 22, as is required by SSA regulations; 2) a petitioner must make separate showings of deficits in cognitive and adaptive functioning in order to considered intellectually disabled under SSA regulations; and 3) the agency’s finding that petitioner does not suffer from qualifying deficits in adaptive functioning is supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2012
• Published 10/11/2012

Judges

• KATZMANN

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel