Opinion
3:21-CV-00526-SLC
03-07-2022
NICOLE ZIMMERMAN, v. KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.
ORDER ON THE PARTIES' JOINT MOTION FOR REMAND FOR FURTHER PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SENTENCE FOUR OF 42 U.S.C. § 405(g)
Honorable Stephen L. Crocker United States Magistrate Judge
Pursuant to the parties' joint motion to remand this action, this Court now, upon substantive review, hereby enters an order under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) reversing the Commissioner's decision with a remand of the cause to the Commissioner according to the following terms. See Shalala v. Schaefer, 509 U.S. 292, 296 (1993); Melkonyan v. Sullivan, 501 U.S. 89, 97-98 (1991). On remand, an administrative law judge will offer Plaintiff the opportunity for a new hearing; proceed through the sequential disability evaluation process as appropriate; evaluate, as appropriate, the medical opinions in the record; obtain supplemental vocational expert testimony if warranted; and issue a new decision.
SO ORDERED