Opinion
Civil Action 20-2971
01-12-2022
SUZANNE M. BLAKE, Plaintiff v. KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Defendant
ORDER
CAROL SANDRA MOORE WELLS, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
AND NOW, this 12th day of January 2022, for the reasons contained in the court's Memorandum of today, it is hereby ORDERED that Plaintiff's request for review (Document No. 27) is GRANTED, as follows:
1. The case is REMANDED to the Commissioner, pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).
2. Upon remand, the ALJ shall: (a) explicitly consider how Plaintiff's moderate limitation in adapting and managing herself should, or should not, change his RFC assessment and, if necessary, pose new hypothetical questions to a VE; and (b) provide an explanation for why he did not accept Dr. McHugh's opinion that Plaintiff had marked limitation with responding appropriately to usual work situations and changes in a routine work setting.