Ramona Vega v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant

This is an appeal by Ramona Vega from a judgment on the pleadings, Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c), by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Lee P. Gagliardi, Judge, upholding the denial of Vega’s application for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits. The Department of Health and Human Services 1 had determined that, taking into account vocational as well as medical factors, Vega was not disabled under the Social Security Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder. We reverse and direct the district court to remand the case for…