Moore, Jr. v. Colvin, No. 13-3774 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff appealed the denial of his application for supplemental security income where the ALJ found that plaintiff was not disabled because he could perform jobs a vocational expert (VE) identified in response to a hypothetical posed by the ALJ. The court agreed with plaintiff that the ALJ failed to resolve an apparent conflict between the physical limitations described by the ALJ in his hypothetical and the requirements of the jobs the VE identified, as listed in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Accordingly, the court vacated and remanded for further proceedings.
Court Description: Civil case - Social Security. The ALJ erred in relying on the testimony of the Vocational Expert without resolving an apparent conflict between the testimony and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the matter is remanded for further proceedings.
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