Nancy E. CLARKE, Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee

I respectfully dissent. I cannot agree to affirm the Appeals Council’s decision that this claimant can perform her past work under the circumstances of this case.

In holding the claimant could return to her past work in a greenhouse, the only full time job she has ever held,1 the Appeals Council rejected the opinions of two administrative law judges that the claimant’s exertional capacity is limited to sedentary work, discounted the claimant’s substantial nonexertional impairments based solely on its evaluation of the objective medical evidence, and, in my view, exceeded the scope of the…