Nancy Thomas v. Carolyn Colvin

Nancy Thomas applied for Supplemental Security Income in 2010 when she was 55 years old. An administrative law judge identified her medically determinable impairments as degenerative changes in her back and left shoulder, Graves’ disease, and dysthymic disorder (a form of chronic depression). But the ALJ concluded that these impairments do not impose more than minimal limitations on Thomas’s ability to work and denied her application. Thomas disputes the ALJ’s omission of fibromyalgia from the list of impairments and contends that his conclusion about the severity of her physical impairments…