Administrative Law: Social Security-Denial Of Benefits

Staff Report//December 12, 2018//

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Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits, the judgment is affirmed because the record supported the determination by the administrative law judge that the claimant’s neck and back problems were not severe impairments.

Judgment is affirmed.

Pratt v. Commissioner (MLW No. 72393/Case No. 18-1510 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri.

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