United States Seventh Circuit

In petitioner's application for Supplemental Security Income, claiming that she is disabled by anxiety, depression, and ankle pain, district court's affirmance of an ALJ's conclusion that petitioner's impairments, although severe, are not disabling, is reversed and remanded where: 1) the ALJ erred by failing to give controlling weight to petitioner's treating physician's opinion about the limitations on petitioner's social functioning and her experience with episodes of decompensation, and as such, petitioner's condition meets the standards of the Listing, and the ALJ should have found petitioner disabled at Step 3; and 2) ALJ's reasons for his adverse credibility ruling find no support, and thus, the credibility determination cannot stand.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/09/2009
• Decided 08/03/2010
• Published 08/03/2010

Judges

• WOOD

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel