Opinion
CASE NO. C16-5997-JLR-MAT
04-18-2017
JEFFERY LANE, Plaintiff, v. NANCY A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
Plaintiff brought this action to seek judicial review of the denial of an application for disability benefits by the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. The parties now stipulate this case should be reversed and remanded for further proceedings. (Dkt. 15.)
Based on the stipulation of the parties, the Court recommends this case be REVERSED and REMANDED for a de novo hearing and further administrative proceedings pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). On remand, the Appeals Counsel shall affirm the finding that the claimant became disabled beginning on December 27, 2013 and shall limit the period at issue to before December 27, 2013. The Appeals Council shall further instruct the Administrative Law Judge to give the claimant an opportunity for a hearing; further evaluate the claimant's residual functional capacity; and obtain supplemental vocational expert evidence that complies with Social Security Ruling 00-4p.
The Court recommends that United States District Judge James L. Robart immediately approve this Report and Recommendation and order the case REVERSED and REMANDED for further administrative proceedings pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). A proposed order accompanies this Report and Recommendation.
DATED this 18th day of April, 2017.
/s/_________
Mary Alice Theiler
United States Magistrate Judge