Varga v. Colvin, No. 14-2122 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseVarga, now 42, had a 1994 medical discharge from the military because of severe endometriosis (a condition which causes pelvic pain). She then worked as a correctional officer, and later an office worker, at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Oxford, Wisconsin. She left the FCI in 2005 because of her continuing physical and mental impairments and has not worked since March 2006, when her application for disability retirement under the Federal Employees Retirement System was approved. She applied for disability insurance benefits in 2006, alleging she had been disabled since 2005. Between 2005 and 2011, Varga was diagnosed with: PTSD, endometriosis, major depression, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia. An Administrative Law Judge denied her application. The district court, affirmed. The Seventh Circuit reversed, agreeing that the ALJ erred by failing to include her mental limitations in the areas of concentration, persistence, and pace in the hypothetical question that he posed to the vocational expert. The flawed hypothetical led the vocational expert and the ALJ to erroneously conclude she was not disabled.
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