Edgar E. Simpson v. Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human Services

GARZA, Circuit Judge:

After receiving Social Security disability benefits for nearly two years, appellant Edgar Simpson was notified that improvement in his condition justified a cessation of those benefits. Simpson responded by filing a claim for continuation of the disability insurance coverage. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who heard the case ruled that while Simpson was still unable to perform his former job, he possessed “the residual functional capacity for at least sedentary work,” 1 and, therefore, was not disabled. The termination of benefits which the ALJ ordered is the subject…