Carol Walker v. Nancy A. Berryhill

701 F. App'x 540

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Decided: November 15, 2017
• Docket: 17-1418
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Carol Walker appeals the district court’s 1 order affirming the denial of disability insurance benefits. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.

Upon de novo review, this court agrees with the district court that substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the administrative law judge’s (ALJ’s) weighing of the medical opinion evidence and Walker’s subjective statements in formulating her residual functional capacity (RFC). See Igo v. Colvin, 839 F.3d 724, 728 (8th Cir. 2016) (standard of review); Myers v. Colvin, 721 F.3d 521, 527 (8th Cir. 2013) (RFC determination is based on all relevant evidence, including medical records, observations, of treating physicians and others, and claimant’s own description of her limitations). Because the ALJ properly relied on the vocational expert’s (VE’s) response to the hypothetical that the ALJ posed, which was consistent with the ALJ’s RFC findings, there is no merit to Walker’s argument concerning the VE’s testimony. See Gieseke v. Colvin, 770 F.3d 1186, 1189 (8th Cir. 2014).

The judgment is affirmed.

1 . The Honorable Barry A. Bryant, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent of the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).