Melissa Stone v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration

Melissa Stone appeals the district court’s order affirming the Social Security Commissioner’s (“Commissioner”) denial of her applications for disability insurance benefits (“DIB”) and supplemental social security income (“SSI”) benefits. On appeal, she argues that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) erred by not incorporating the answer to one of the hypothetical he posed to the vocational expert (“VE”) when determining that, considering Stone’s age, education, work experience, and residual functioning capacity (“RFC”), jobs existed in the national economy that she could perform.

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