Legal Opinion
Verna B. TERRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 24, 1990No. 89-35477PublishedCited by 649 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
Social Security regulations require that disability benefits be paid to a claimant whose impairments prevent her from doing her previous work, unless the Secretary can identify other types of work she can perform. Where the claimant is close to retirement age, the Secretary’s burden is particularly heavy; he must identify jobs that are less demanding than the claimant’s previous work, but not so easy as to require no skill at all. We consider whether the jobs identified by the Secretary in this case fall within the proper range.
Facts
Verna Terry is sixty-four years old…
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