David Walton Swaim v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

*1310WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff sought disability benefits under §§ 216(i) and 223 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 416(i) and 423. While the administrative law judge found that claimant could not return to his former work, the administrative law judge, relying upon the answer to a hypothetical question put to the vocational expert, found that claimant could perform sedentary jobs in the bench assembly and hand assembly industry and that such jobs existed in significant numbers. Accordingly, he denied benefits.

Notwithstanding that claimant presented substantial contradictory evidence…