FEDERAL COURT RECOMMENDS SSA’S DENIAL OF DIABETES DISABILITY CLAIM BE REVERSED; CALLS SSA JUDGE’S DECISION MEAGER AND WHOLLY INADEQUATE

I am very pleased to announce another favorable recommendation of a US federal court to overrule and throw out a denial of disability benefits by the SSA.
In this long and difficult claim, the claimant was a young person who filed for disability in 2002. He claimed disability due to his suffering from diabetes mellitus and hypertension.
The SSA judge denied his claim. The SSA judge found that the claimant’s diabetes did not meet the SSA’s definition of impairment.
On appeal to the federal court, we argued that the SSA judge was wrong. We argued that the SSA judge should have found that the claimant’s diabetes met the definition required by the SSA and that he was disabled for that reason. We argued that the SSA judge failed to discuss and explain in detail why the claimant’s condition did not meet the definition of diabetes and was not disabled.
The federal court has agreed with our argument and has recommended that the SSA denial be reversed and sent back for another hearing.
The federal court wholly agreed with our arguments that that SSA’s judge failed in her duty to discuss the evidence and “explain why” the claimant was not disabled due to his diabetes.
The federal court further found that the SSA judge’s “meager discussion of the evidence [was] wholly inadequate” and was a summary conclusion that failed to live up to acceptable standards of review.
The claim will go back to the SSA for another hearing where the SSA Judge has been instructed to “adequately discuss her conclusions” why the claimant should not be found as disabled.