Jessie L. WATSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

On appeal from the district court’s affirmance of a denial of disability benefits, Jessie L. Watson argues the determination that she could return to her past work as a collator is not supported by substantial evidence and that Watson’s pain was not properly considered. We affirm.

Watson, 53 years old at the time of the decision, has a third grade education and is unable to read well. Her past work experience has been collator in a printing company and packager and assembler of automotive and missile parts.

Watson filed an application for disability benefits because of impairments resulting…