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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MAINE TAMMY SABIA NICKERSON, Plaintiff v. MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

No. 1:11-cv-87-GZS

REPORT AND RECOMMENDED DECISION1 This Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") appeal raises the question of whether the commissioner supportably found the plaintiff capable of performing work existing in significant numbers in the national economy. The plaintiff seeks reversal and remand on the bases that the administrative law judge erred in (i) finding her depression and anxiety nonsevere, (ii) finding her obesity-related chronic pain nonsevere, and (iii) relying on vocational expert evidence rendered irrelevant by the omission of limitations resulting from depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. See Statement of Specific Errors ("Statement of Errors") (Docket No. 11) at 1-7. I find no reversible error and, accordingly, recommend that the court affirm the decision. Pursuant to the commissioner's sequential evaluation process, 20 C.F.R.

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