Krueger v. Commissioner of Social Security

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: February 2, 2022
• Docket: 3:21-cv-05477
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 9 TACOMA DIVISION 10 HANNAH KRUEGER, Civil No. 3:21-CV-05477-TLF 11 Plaintiff, 12 vs. ORDER 13 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, 14 Defendant. 15 Based on the stipulation of the parties, it is ORDERED that the Commissioner’s decision 16 in regard to Plaintiff’s application for benefits under Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security 17 Act be REVERSED and REMANDED to the Commissioner of Social Security for further 18 administrative proceedings. Upon remand, the Appeals Council will instruct the Administrative 19 Law Judge to reevaluate the opinion evidence of record, considering its supportability and

20 consistency with the evidence of record; reevaluate Plaintiff’s maximum residual functional 21 capacity; if warranted by the expanded record, obtain supplemental vocational expert evidence to 22 clarify the effect of the assessed limitations on Plaintiff’s ability to perform other work in the 23 national economy; and offer Plaintiff the opportunity for a hearing, take any further action 24 needed to complete the administrative record, and issue a new decision. 1 This Court hereby reverses the Commissioner’s decision under sentence four of 42 2 U.S.C. § 405(g) with a remand of the case to the Commissioner for further administrative 3 proceedings. See Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89 (1991). Plaintiff may be entitled to 4 reasonable attorney fees and costs pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2412, upon proper request to this 5 Court. 6 DATED this ___2_____ day of February__2022. 7 8 A UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24