20 C.F.R. § 404.1545

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider all medically determinable impairments, whether severe or not.

(SS) McKenzie v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-09-21(a)(2)

Further, the ALJ must consider “all of [a claimant’s] medically determinable impairments,” whether severe or not, when assessing an RFC. 20 C.F.R. §§ 405.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2). ... As discussed above, the ALJ erred in her analysis of the evidence related to Plaintiff’s mental and physical impairments, including Plaintiff’s testimony and the medical record, which impacted the determination of the RFC. ... Therefore, the Court is unable to find the RFC determination was proper.

An RFC assessment must consider all impairments, including those found nonsevere at step two.

Stanly v. Kijakazi · filed 2021-09-22(a)(2)

the ALJ continued with the sequential evaluation process and properly considered all impairments, both severe and nonsevere, when determining Plaintiff’s RFC. Tr. 15-19; see 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545.

Section 404.1545(e) requires consideration of the combined limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Sizemore v. SSA · filed 2021-09-27(e)

For these reasons, the Court finds that the ALJ did not err because he thoroughly evaluated Plaintiff’s impairments, singularly and in combination, before determining Plaintiff’s RFC.

In assessing residual functional capacity, the ALJ considers all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Spears v. Kijakazi · filed 2021-09-23(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairment identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere ones, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Ealy v. Kijakazi (CONSENT) · filed 2021-09-28(a)(2)

Based upon Eleventh Circuit precedent, the court concludes that the ALJ’s statements demonstrate that the ALJ sufficiently considered all of Plaintiff’s impairments in combination in the rest of the sequential evaluation.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider limitations from all impairments, including nonsevere impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Marshall v. Kijakazi (CONSENT) · filed 2021-09-30(a)(2)

In assessing a claimant's RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual's impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’ ” Social Security Ruling 96-8P, 1996 WL 374184 at *5; see also Swindle v. Sullivan, 914 F.2d 222, 226 (11th Cir. 1990) (stating that “the ALJ must consider a claimant's impairments in combination”) (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545; Reeves v. Heckler, 734 F.2d 519, 525 (11th Cir. 1984)).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Neela v. Social Security Administration · filed 2021-09-30(a)(2)

Thus the law is clear that an ALJ cannot simply ignore a claimant’s impairments, whether severe or not severe, in assessing RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all of a claimant’s impairments, both severe and non-severe, when determining residual functional capacity.

Ryan v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-10-21(a)(2)

To determine a claimant's RFC, the ALJ must consider all of a claimant's impairments, both severe and non-severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all medically determinable impairments supported by the record, including non-severe impairments.

RIVERA v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2021-11-04(a)(2)

When assessing a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ must consider all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments which are supported by the record, including those considered non-severe.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Fletcher-Silvas v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-11-02(e)

The RFC is the most a claimant can do considering her limitations or restrictions, and the ALJ must consider the limiting effects of all of the claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, in assessing the RFC. ... Therefore, the ALJ erred in assessing the RFC because it did not account for all of Plaintiff’s functional limitations.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the RFC assessment to consider the combined effects of all impairments, including those not found severe.

RODRIGUEZ v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2021-11-17(a)(2)

Accordingly, the relevant question is not whether every severe impairment has been named, but whether the claimant has at least one severe impairment that justifies proceeding to the next steps of the sequential evaluation process, where the ALJ must consider the combined effects of all of the claimant’s impairments, severe and non-severe.

An RFC assessment must consider all medically determinable impairments, including mental impairments and those that are not severe.

O'Banion v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-12-02(a)(2)

Therefore, when determining the RFC, the ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, mental and physical, even those that are non-severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments found nonsevere.

LAVALLEY v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2021-12-02(a)(2)

The ALJ considers all impairments in this analysis, not just those deemed to be severe. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2); SSR 96-8p. ... The ALJ’s findings are supported by substantial credible evidence and she appropriately considered all of Plaintiff’s medically supported complaints as shown by his consultative visits and limited medical treatment.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider limitations from all impairments, including those that are not severe.

Hartley v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-12-13(a)(2)

In determining an individual’s RFC and later posing a hypothetical to a VE that includes the RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’” SSR 96-8P, 1996 WL 374184, at *5; see also 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2); Swindle v. Sullivan, 914 F.2d 222, 226 (11th Cir. 1990) (stating “the ALJ must consider a claimant’s impairments in combination” (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545; Reeves v. Heckler, 734 F.2d 519, 525 (11th Cir. 1984))).

An RFC assessment must consider all of a claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe; an omission is harmless if the claimant does not explain how it affects her ability to work.

Clark v. Kijakazi · filed 2021-12-14(a)(2)

In making the RFC finding, the ALJ must consider all of the claimant’s impairments, including impairments that are not severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... Without more, the ALJ’s error in failing to specifically address the effects of Clark’s obesity on her mental limitations is harmless.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

(SS) Cowan v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-12-22(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider “all of [a claimant’s] medically determinable impairments,” whether severe or not, when defining a claimant’s RFC. 20 C.F.R. §§ 405.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2). ... As discussed above, the ALJ erred in his analysis of the evidence related to Plaintiff’s mental and physical impairments, including Plaintiff’s testimony and medical opinions in the record, which impacted the determination of the RFC. ... Therefore, the Court is unable to find the RFC determination was proper.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

(SS) Guzman v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2021-12-22(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider “all of [a claimant’s] medically determinable impairments,” whether severe or not, when defining a claimant’s RFC. ... Therefore, the Court is unable to find the RFC determination was proper.

An ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe.

Sarnowski v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · filed 2021-12-29(a)(2)

In making the RFC finding the ALJ must consider all of the claimant’s impairments, including impairments that are not severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all of a claimant’s impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe.

CHERRY-MATALA v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2021-12-29(a)(2)

Plaintiff correctly notes that SSR 96-8p requires an ALJ consider all of a claimant’s impairments when developing the RFC, including those that are not severe. See SSR 96-8p; 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments and medication side effects.

Portillo v. Social Security Administration · filed 2022-01-03(a)(2)

When assessing a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ must “consider all of [the claimant’s] medically determinable impairments of which [the ALJ is] aware, including [the] medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe[.]’” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). Here, when assessing Mr. Portillo’s RFC, the ALJ failed to consider the side effects from Mr. Portillo’s HIV medication as well as Mr. Portillo’s panic disorder.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including non-severe mental and physical impairments.

Levitz v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-01-12(a)(2)

When determining the RFC, the ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, mental and physical, even those that are non-severe.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Vollmer v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-01-14(a)(2)

So the ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including those that are not “severe.” ... The ALJ also considered Plaintiff anemia, obesity, and diabetes with peripheral neuropathy in combination with all of Plaintiff’s medical impairments to assess Plaintiff’s RFC. ... Thus, substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s RFC finding.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider limitations from all impairments, including those that are not severe.

Rosado v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-01-19(a)(2)

In assessing a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’” ... The ALJ’s findings regarding Plaintiff’s mental health improving with medication and regarding Ms. Urban’s opinion are not supported by substantial evidence.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider every medically determinable impairment supported by the record, including non-severe impairments.

MALETTO v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2022-01-19(a)(2)

When assessing a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ must consider all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments which are supported by the record, including those considered non-severe.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including mental impairments found to be non-severe.

Garcia v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-01-27(a)(2), (e)

In formulating a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ must consider all impairments and the extent to which they are consistent with medical evidence. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), (e), 416.945(a)(2), (e). ... Based on the ALJ’s acknowledgment and review of Plaintiff’s mental health history, substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s decision to not include mental limitations in Plaintiff’s RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the RFC assessment to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

Robertson v. Saul · filed 2022-02-01(a)(2)

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the ALJ did not consider Plaintiff’s mental impairments, specifically his depression, when determining Plaintiff’s RFC. ... 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2) (“If you have more than one impairment. We will consider all of your medically determinable impairments of which we are aware, including your medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe,’ as explained in §§ 404.1520(c), 404.1521, and 404.1523, when we assess your residual functional capacity.”). The RFC determination does not include any non-exertional limitations nor does the ALJ’s analysis include any indication that she considered Plaintiff’s mental impairments in her RFC determination.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider the limiting effects of all documented impairments, whether severe or non-severe.

Hill v. Social Security Administration · filed 2022-02-02(a)(1)-(3)

In assessing a claimant's RFC, the ALJ must consider all the evidence in the record, including the limiting effects of all documented impairments, regardless of whether those impairments are severe or non-severe. Id. at § 404.1545(a)(1-3).

Section 404.1545 requires the RFC assessment to consider a claimant’s impairments, but the RFC need not list each one separately.

Howard v. SSA · filed 2022-02-16(a)(1)

Because ALJ Hodges is not required to enumerate each of Howard’s maladies and she has clearly stated that she has considered each impairment in making her decision, that is sufficient.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider limitations from all impairments, including those that are not severe.

Bellomy v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-02-22(a)(2)

In assessing a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’” ... The ALJ’s Decision makes clear that she considered all of these matters at later steps of the sequential inquiry.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe.

ROSADO v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2022-02-22(a)(2)

The ALJ considers all impairments in this analysis, not just those deemed severe. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2); SSR 96-8p. ... This Court therefore concludes that, with respect to obesity, ALJ Miller’s step three findings and RFC determination are supported by substantial evidence.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to assess the limiting effects of all a claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, when determining residual functional capacity.

Williams v. Saul (CONSENT) · filed 2022-03-10(e)

The ALJ did, as required, evaluate Plaintiff’s obesity and any adverse impact on her ability to sustain work. Instead of finding that she suffered from considerable fatigue as Plaintiff argues, the ALJ, based upon the medical records, found that her obesity could adversely impact other functions, including her cardiovascular health (and her respiratory system), by limiting her ability to sustain activity on a regular and continuing basis during an eight-hour day, five-day week (or equivalent schedule). R. 23-24; see also 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e) (stating that, when the claimant has any severe impairment, the ALJ is required to assess the limiting effects of all of the claimant’s impairments—including those that are not severe—in determining the claimant’s RFC).

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider the combined effects of all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere ones.

Wilson v. Saul · filed 2022-03-07(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ is required to consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, both severe and non-severe.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider severe and nonsevere impairments when assessing residual functional capacity; failure to do so requires remand.

Cossette v. Social Security · filed 2022-03-09(a)(2)

Given that the ALJ was required to consider all of Plaintiff’s impairments, severe and non-severe, in assessing her RFC, the ALJ’s failure to do so here constitutes error necessitating remand.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all a claimant’s impairments, including non-severe impairments, when determining residual functional capacity.

Hrab v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-03-08(a)(2)

Because an ALJ must consider the limiting effects of all of a claimant’s impairments, SSR 96-8p, 1996 WL 374184, at *5 (July 2, 1996); see also 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2), the proper inquiry is whether the ALJ considered all of the claimant’s impairments. ... Moreover, the ALJ noted that he considered all of Plaintiff’s impairments, including those that were not severe, in determining Plaintiff’s RFC. (PageID.51.)

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider all impairments, regardless of severity, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Riddick v. Saul · filed 2022-03-15(a)(2)

An ALJ must evaluate the “combined impact [of the impairments] on a claimant’s ability to work, regardless of whether every impairment is severe” when assessing the claimant’s RFC. ... The ALJ accounted for the plaintiff’s mental limitations in her RFC analysis.

Section 404.1545(a) requires the ALJ to consider the combined effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Solano v. Kijakazi · filed 2022-03-21(a)

The ALJ must consider all of the relevant medical opinions as well as the combined effects of all of the plaintiff’s impairments, even those that are not “severe.” 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a); 416.945(a); Celaya v. Halter, 332 F.3d 1177, 1182 (9th Cir. 2003).

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to account for both severe and non-severe impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

Snodgrass v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-03-22

Under the Commissioner’s regulations, all impairments, both severe and non- severe, must be accounted for in an ALJ’s RFC assessment.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider limitations from all of a claimant’s impairments, including impairments that are not severe, when determining residual functional capacity.

Torres v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-03-23(a)(2)

In determining an individual’s RFC and later posing a hypothetical to a VE that includes the RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’”

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires consideration of all impairments when determining residual functional capacity, including impairments not addressed at step two.

Warren v. Commissioner, Social Security · filed 2022-03-21(a)(2)

Because Plaintiff made the threshold showing that several of his impairments were severe, the ALJ continued with the sequential evaluation process and properly considered all impairments when determining Plaintiff’s RFC. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2). Any step two error, therefore, would not necessitate remand.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments, and their limiting effects when assessing residual functional capacity.

Faulkner v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-03-23(a)(2), (e)

In rendering the RFC, the ALJ must consider the medical opinions in conjunction with all the other evidence of record and must consider all the medically determinable impairments, including impairments that are not severe, and the total limiting effects of each. ... Against this medical backdrop, substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s decision that Plaintiff retains the RFC for light work.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider impairments together when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe.

Treadway v. Saul · filed 2022-03-31(a)(2)

In contrast to Plaintiff’s assertions, it was proper, and necessary, for the ALJ to consider several impairments in combination rather than discuss each individually.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all known medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

Remer v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-04-04(a)(2)

In determining an RFC, the ALJ is required to consider all “medically determinable impairments of which” he is aware, including “medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe.’” Id. § 404.1545(a)(2).

An RFC assessment considers medical and nonmedical evidence and all of a claimant’s limitations.

Mays v. Kijakazi · filed 2022-08-05(a)(2)–(3)

The RFC assessment considers all of the evidence (medical and non-medical) and all of a claimant’s limitations. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2)–(3). ... The RFC adequately accounted for Sarah M.’s limitations in her ability to concentrate, persist, or maintain pace.

Section 404.1545(a) requires an RFC assessment to consider severe and non-severe impairments.

DEMARCO v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2022-08-10(a)

Here, the ALJ provided sufficient rationale for her RFC determination by properly considering Plaintiff’s severe and non-severe physical and mental impairments in assigning a medium exertion level.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Nelson v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-08-15(e)

The ALJ must consider the limiting effects of all of the claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, in assessing the RFC. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e); SSR 96-8p. ... However, as described above, the ALJ improperly evaluated the medical evidence related to Plaintiff’s hearing loss, and, therefore, the ALJ’s steps four and five findings lack the support of substantial evidence.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

Fisher v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-08-19(a)(2)

In formulating a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ must consider all impairments and the extent to which the impairments are consistent with medical evidence. ... In assessing Plaintiff’s RFC, the ALJ followed the applicable regulations and supported the RFC determination with substantial evidence.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including those that are not severe.

SOTO v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2022-08-19(a)(2)

The ALJ considers all impairments in this analysis, not just those deemed to be severe.

An ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe ones, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Young v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-08-18(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including those that are not “severe.” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2); Schink v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 935 F.3d 1245, 1268 (11th Cir. 2019). ... In assessing Plaintiff’s RFC, the ALJ considered all of Plaintiff’s impairments, both severe and non-severe, and the supporting medical evidence. Substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s RFC determination that Plaintiff can perform work at a reduced light level and the Court finds no error.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires consideration of all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Evans v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-08-26(a)(2)

On remand, the ALJ is reminded of the need to account for all impairments in the RFC analysis.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the Commissioner to consider each impairment when formulating RFC, but a diagnosed impairment needs evidence of a functional limitation to affect the assessment.

Ward v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2022-09-02(a)(2)

While the Commissioner must at least consider each impairment when formulating an RFC, see 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2), Plaintiff must present evidence showing the diagnosed impairment causes some significant functional limitation.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Gostomski v. Saul · filed 2022-08-30(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable ... impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider the combined effect of a claimant’s impairments on the ability to work, even if no single impairment is disabling.

Doreson v. Saul · filed 2022-09-13

In deciding if the ALJ’s determination is supported by substantial evidence we must look at the effect Plaintiff’s impairments have on his ability to work as a whole, even if an individual impairment might not be disabling on its own. SSR 96-5p; 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545.

Section 404.1545(a) requires an RFC assessment to account for limitations resulting from a claimant’s medically determinable impairments.

Tull v. Social Security Administration Commissioner · filed 2022-09-07(a)

RFC is the most an individual is capable of doing despite the combined effects of their severe and non-severe medically determinable impairments. See 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a); see also Ford v. Astrue, 518 F.3d 979, 981 (8th Cir .2008). Accordingly, the ALJ's RFC assessment should have included limitations resulting from Plaintiff's status post rotator cuff repair.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to account for limitations from all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Patterson v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-09-07(a)(2)

A claimant’s RFC includes limitations for all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... Finding that the ALJ’s RFC analysis failed to adequately evaluate limitations from all of Mr. P.’s impairments and that the ALJ failed to address evidence contrary to her conclusions, especially considering Mr. P.’s medically determinable severe impairment of CRPS, remand is appropriate.

An ALJ must consider all impairments and their consistency with medical evidence when formulating residual functional capacity.

Tavares v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-09-21(a)(2), (e)

In formulating a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ must consider all impairments and the extent to which they are consistent with medical evidence.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe; an express discussion of their combined effects is unnecessary when the record shows they were considered.

Ellison v. Social Security Administration, Commissioner of · filed 2022-09-22(e)

Therefore, even if the ALJ did not expressly state that he was considering Plaintiff’s symptoms in conjunction, the record indicates he complied with the requirements of 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(e)9 and SSR 96-8p and his decision as to Plaintiff’s RFC is therefore supported by substantial evidence.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider the combined effects of a claimant’s impairments, including obesity.

Thompson v. Kijakazi · filed 2022-09-26(a)(2), (e)

Instead, the ALJ considered and weighed the impact of Katherine’s obesity on her other impairments and the RFC findings throughout the decision.

An RFC assessment must consider limitations from all of a claimant’s impairments, including impairments that are not severe.

Dambra v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2022-09-26(a)(2)

In determining an individual’s RFC and later posing a hypothetical to a VE that includes the RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’” SSR 96-8P, 1996 WL 374184 at *5; see also 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2); Swindle v. Sullivan, 914 F.2d 222, 226 (11th Cir. 1990) (stating “the ALJ must consider a claimant’s impairments in combination” (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545; Reeves v. Heckler, 734 F.2d 519, 525 (11th Cir. 1984))).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments, including those found nonsevere, when assessing residual functional capacity.

RIOS v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2022-09-26(a)(2)

The ALJ considers all impairments in this analysis, not just those deemed to be severe. ... Here, in assessing Plaintiff’s RFC, the ALJ provided a sufficient narrative discussion of Plaintiff’s entire medical record during the alleged period of disability.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Bousonville v. Kijakazi · filed 2022-09-29(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ is required to consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, both severe and non-severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545.

Section 404.1545(e) requires an ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Garcia v. Social Security Administration · filed 2022-10-04(e)

In formulating a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ considers the limiting effects of all of a claimant’s impairments—even those that are not severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(e). Because the RFC represents the entirety of an ALJ’s findings on a claimant’s limitations and because the ALJ made no specific RFC finding regarding Plaintiff's ability to lift/carry, the Court concludes that the ALJ did not find that Plaintiff was limited to lifting/carrying no more than 10 to 15 pounds.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere mental impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Tibbetts v. Kijakazi · filed 2022-11-04(a)(2)

“In determining a claimant’s residual functional capacity, the ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.” Ghanim v. Colvin, 763 F.3d 1154, 1166 (9th Cir. 2014) (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2)). ... Because the ALJ did not explain how he accounted for Tibbetts’s mental impairments, the Court cannot be sure that he fulfilled his obligation to consider those impairments -- including as documented in an opinion he found persuasive -- in conducting the RFC assessment.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider all relevant limitations when assessing residual functional capacity, but does not require the ALJ to articulate every specific combination of symptoms.

Elledge v. Social Security Administration · filed 2023-01-30

The ALJ had no obligation to articulate the specific combinations of these symptoms that Plaintiff insists upon here; he only needed to consider them all, which he did.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider limitations from all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

PONDO v. KIJAKAZI · filed 2023-02-10(a)(2)

Therefore, the ALJ’s failure to find this condition to be medically determinable at step two is inexplicable, and it also presumptively prejudicial because an ALJ is only required to consider limitations imposed by medically determinable impairments at the later stages of the sequential evaluation. See 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2) (RFC based on consideration of all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including non-severe impairments.

Moore v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-02-13(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis. 20 C.F.R. §§404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2).

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider all medically determinable impairments, including those found non-severe at step two.

Morales v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-02-23(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at Step 2 of his or her analysis.

An RFC assessment must consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Green v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2023-02-24(a)(2)

When assessing the claimant’s RFC, “the ALJ must consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, whether severe or not.” Wells, 727 F.3d at 1069; see also 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2)). ... The Court finds that substantial evidence supports her RFC determination.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider evidence of all impairments, including those found not severe.

Wolford v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-02-27(a)(2)

Even if the vocal cord paralysis is not a severe impairment, a finding the court leaves for remand, the administrative decision erred by not considering all the impairment evidence in its RFC assessment.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Solomon v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-02-27(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis. 20 C.F.R. §§404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) permits an ALJ to address nonsevere impairments briefly in the RFC analysis when the ALJ has thoroughly evaluated their functional effects at step two.

(SS) Correia v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-02-16(a)(2)

Such a cursory statement is sufficient where, as here, the ALJ thoroughly evaluated the functional limitations imposed by plaintiff’s non-severe mental impairments at step two.

Section 404.1545(a) requires an RFC assessment to account for the cumulative effects of a claimant’s impairments.

Alexander v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-03-01(a)

The ALJ further failed to account for the cumulative impacts of plaintiff's multiple impairments in the RFC when she determined plaintiff could perform light work.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider medically determinable impairments, but does not require consideration of symptoms attributed to an impairment found not medically determinable.

Thorpe v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-02-28(a)(2)

However, the ALJ is not required to consider the symptoms from his headaches when she found his headaches to be a non-medically determinable impairment.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider medically determinable impairments; without such a mental impairment, the assessment need not include corresponding mental limitations.

DERVIC v. KIJAKAZI · filed 2023-02-28(a)(2)

In the absence of a medically determinable mental health impairment, it was appropriate for ALJ Benedict to formulate an RFC without corresponding limitations. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2) (explaining that ALJs will consider all “medically determinable impairments” in their assessment of a claimant’s RFC).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider a claimant’s mental impairments when determining residual functional capacity.

Anderson v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-03-08(a)(2)

As shown below, the court determines that the Commissioner’s position was not substantially justified because the ALJ, despite acknowledging the requirement to assess Plaintiff’s mental impairments when crafting Plaintiff’s RFC, failed to do so.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Torres-Quinones v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-09(e)

The ALJ must consider the limiting effects of all of the claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, in assessing the RFC. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e); SSR 96-8p. ... The ALJ’s errors were not harmless because the RFC fails to account for limitations caused by Plaintiff’s migraine headaches and mental health impairments.

An ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments found non-severe at step two.

Figueroa v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-09(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Giffin v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-03-13(a)(2)

At step four, the ALJ must determine the claimant’s residual functional capacity to work based on all impairments, including impairments that are not severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1520(e), § 404.1545(a)(2).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

Walker v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-13(a)(2)

In rendering the RFC, therefore, the ALJ must consider the medical opinions in conjunction with all the other evidence of record and will consider all the medically determinable impairments, including impairments that are not severe, and the total limiting effects of each. ... As discussed above, however, the record shows that Plaintiff has abilities consistent with the DOT description of language level two. ... Substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s RFC determination.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider nonsevere mental impairments when assessing residual functional capacity and to explain that consideration beyond boilerplate language.

Garcia v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-10(a)(2)

The Court finds the ALJ erred by failing to include some discussion in the written decision, beyond mere boilerplate language, reflecting that she considered all of Plaintiff’s medically determinable impairments, specifically his mental impairments, in fashioning the RFC and making the disability determination.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity considers all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Watkins v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-03-16(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis. 20 C.F.R. §§404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2).

Section 404.1545(e) requires an ALJ to consider the combined limiting effects of all impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Millard v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-27(e)

The applicable regulation requires the ALJ to “consider the limiting effects of all [of a claimant’s] impairment(s), even those that are not severe,” when formulating the RFC. ... Here, unlike in Simpson, the ALJ complied with 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(e) and adequately considered the combined effects of Plaintiff’s impairments.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider severe and nonsevere impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

(SS) MacDowell v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-22(a)(1), (a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all impairments, severe and nonsevere, when assessing RFC.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider all impairments together when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments found non-severe at step two.

Grisales v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-22

Beyond that, the ALJ also considered Plaintiff’s mental impairments in assessing Plaintiff’s RFC at step four (Tr. 16-19). Indeed, although an ALJ need not determine whether every alleged impairment is “severe” at step two, the ALJ must consider all impairments, regardless of severity, in conjunction with one another in performing the latter steps of the sequential evaluation.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider limitations from all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Munnings v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-24(a)(2)

By contrast, the Court finds that the ALJ’s failure to account for his findings regarding Claimant’s mental impairments with his RFC determination requires remand.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Nelson v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-27(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairment identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to include limitations from all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Levendouski v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-29(a)(2)

A claimant’s RFC includes limitations for all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2).

An RFC assessment considers all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Loverso v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-29(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider both severe and nonsevere impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-03-30

The ALJ considers impairments that are both “severe” and “not severe,” see 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545, “based on all the relevant medical and other evidence in [the claimant’s] case record,” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1520(e).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

DePalma v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-04-10(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider the limiting effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe.

Lewis v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-04-20(e)

In assessing the RFC, the ALJ must consider the limiting effects of all of the claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere ones, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Bagnell v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2023-04-14(a)(2)

Importantly, in formulating the residual functional capacity (between steps three and four), the ALJ must consider all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, even ones that are not severe. Id. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... Given Plaintiff’s testimony that her migraines caused disabling symptoms, the ALJ’s failure to consider those symptoms was harmful error.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider limitations and restrictions from all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments deemed not severe.

(SS) Rodriguez v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-04-24

In the RFC assessment, the ALJ is required to consider all limitations and restrictions imposed by all impairments, even those deemed not severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments found non-severe at step two.

Altland v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-04-28(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

An ALJ must consider a claimant’s documented impairments when determining residual functional capacity.

Cordova v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-05-02(a)(1)

The ALJ did not find that Plaintiff’s lymphedema was a severe impairment, nor did the ALJ address Plaintiff’s lymphedema in determining Plaintiff’s RFC. This was in error.

Section 404.1545(a)(1) defines residual functional capacity as the most a claimant can still do despite her limitations.

Tomlinson v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-05-13(a)(1)

The RFC assessment is an evaluation of the most a claimant can still do despite her limitations.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments, and all relevant testimony.

Lucas v. Commissioner Social Security Administration · filed 2023-05-17

The RFC must contemplate all medically determinable impairments, including those which the ALJ found non-severe, and evaluate all the relevant testimony, including the opinions of medical providers and the subjective symptom testimony set forth by the claimant.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Shaffer v. Saul · filed 2023-05-30(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ is required to consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, both severe and non-severe.

When assessing residual functional capacity, the ALJ must consider the combined effect of all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

Ratliff v. Social Security Administration · filed 2023-06-05(a)(2)

Here, the record shows that the ALJ not only stated in the decision that she considered all of Plaintiff’s medically determinable impairments, even those that were not severe when assessing the RFC (R. 13), but her discussion of the evidence reveals that she considered Plaintiff’s knee impairment, degenerative disc disease, and her mental impairments when determining the RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments, including nonsevere ones, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Baig v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-05-26(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all impairments, even those that are not severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... However, the Court cannot find the error harmless because it is not clear that the ALJ included limitations arising from these impairments in the RFC.

An RFC assessment must account for limitations from both severe and non-severe impairments.

Howard v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-06-21(a)(2)

Thus, any error in assessing the severity of Claimant’s IC or mental impairments was harmless because the ALJ properly accounted for all of Claimant’s impairments, both severe and non-severe, at all steps of the sequential analysis and appropriately afforded limitations related thereto in the residual functional capacity finding.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all medically determinable impairments together, whether severe or not severe.

Smith v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2023-06-26(a)(2)

At step four, in assessing the claimant’s RFC, the ALJ must consider the combined effect of all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, whether severe or not severe.

An RFC assessment must account for limitations from a severe impairment or explain why that impairment imposes none.

Charlot v. Social Security Administration Commissioner · filed 2023-07-31(a)(1)

In this case, it makes little sense for the ALJ to find Plaintiff's migraines were severe and then fail to account for any limitation related to her migraines. The Court believes remand is necessary for the ALJ to more clearly account for all of Plaintiffs limitations in the RFC determination.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Moyer v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-07-31(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ considers all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) does not require an ALJ to discuss a claimed impairment in the RFC analysis when no objective medical evidence establishes it during the relevant period.

Padilla v. Social Security Administration · filed 2023-08-09(a)(2)

But the ALJ was not required to consider speculation. The Court cannot overturn the ALJ for failing to discuss a personality disorder MDI prior to the disability date of January 18, 2019, when there is no objective medical evidence to support such a finding. For the same reasons, the Court does not find the ALJ had a duty to discuss this evidence at step four.

An RFC assessment must consider all of a claimant’s impairments, whether severe or nonsevere.

Lawson v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-08-16(a)(2)

“In formulating the RFC, the ALJ must consider all impairments, whether severe or non-severe.” Franklin v. Berryhill, No. 4:16-CV-1106, 2017 WL 3620347, at *9 (S.D. Tex. Aug. 23, 2017) (citing Patterson v. Berryhill, No. 3:16–CV–204, 2017 WL 1196859, at *12 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 30, 2017); 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2)).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including impairments that are not severe.

Palafox v. Saul · filed 2023-08-18(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all impairments, even those that are not severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to reflect all of a claimant’s work limitations and their combined effects.

VINOKUR v. KIJAKAZI · filed 2023-08-23(a)(2)

Importantly, an RFC assessment must reflect all of claimant’s work limitations and the combined effects thereof.

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to account for a claimant’s impairments and associated limitations when determining residual functional capacity.

Debruzzi v. Kijakazi · filed 2023-08-25(a)

After reviewing the record and the parties’ arguments, the Court finds that the ALJ erred by not accounting for Plaintiff’s history of ulcerative colitis and associated limitations in his RFC determination.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the agency to consider the combined effects of all a claimant’s impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, regardless of whether each impairment is severe.

Fulton v. Social Security Administration · filed 2023-08-29(e)

This is because, under the regulations, the agency at later steps “consider[s] the combined effect of all of [the claimant’s] impairments without regard to whether any such impairment, if considered separately, would be of sufficient severity.” Langley v. Barnhart, 373 F.3d 1116, 1123-24 (10th Cir. 2004); see also 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e).

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider all relevant evidence, including limitations from nonsevere mental impairments and their combined effect with physical impairments.

Krasnowski v. Saul · filed 2023-08-28(a)(1)

The RFC measures the tasks a person can perform given his limitations based on “all the relevant evidence” in the administrative record. ... Setting aside whether the ALJ erred at step two, he erred when assessing the RFC by not considering limitations resulting from Ronald’s depression, either singly or in combination with effects of his physical impairments.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those found non-severe.

Butler v. Kijakazi (CONSENT) · filed 2023-09-06(a)(2)

At the fourth step of the sequential evaluation process, an ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, not just the “severe” impairments identified at step two.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

Helbling v. Commissioner Social Security Administration · filed 2023-08-30(a)(2)

But the ALJ excluded Plaintiff’s fibromyalgia pain from the RFC by finding it was not medically determinable. See 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2) (“We will consider all of your medically determinable impairments of which we are aware, including your medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe’ . . .”). As such, the ALJ’s step two error was harmful.

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Watkins v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-09-07(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including those that are not “severe.”

Section 404.1545 requires an ALJ to consider the limiting effects of every impairment, including impairments that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

Carter v. Social Security Administration, Commissioner · filed 2023-09-15(e)

In assessing a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ must “consider the limiting effects of all . . . impairment(s), even those that are not severe.” 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e).

An RFC assessment must account for limitations from all impairments, including those found not severe.

Patel v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-09-22(a)(2)

In assessing a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ “must consider limitations and restrictions imposed by all of an individual’s impairments, even those that are not ‘severe.’” ... The ALJ’s determination that the mental impairments are not severe and there are no mental limitations for which to account in the RFC is unsupported by substantial evidence.

An RFC must account for the combined effects of medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Onder v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-09-26(a)(2)

Finding that the ALJ’s decision failed to adequately explain how certain RFC limitations accounted for the combined effects of Ms. O’s obesity with her sleep apnea as well as Ms. O’s right shoulder bursitis/tendonitis, remand is required.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments when assessing residual functional capacity, including non-severe impairments.

Bremer v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-09-27(a)(2)

When determining the RFC, the ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, mental and physical, even those that are non-severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to account for all impairments, whether severe or nonsevere.

Vojak v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-09-28(a)(2)

The ALJ’s RFC determination must be based on all the relevant evidence and account for all of a plaintiff’s impairments, regardless of whether those impairments are severe or non-severe.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe ones, when assessing residual functional capacity.

WOOD v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2023-09-29(a)(2)

Indeed, ALJs must consider all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, severe or not, in combination in the RFC assessment.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe; an erroneous finding that an impairment is not medically determinable can skew that assessment.

MORENO v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · filed 2023-10-11(a)(2)

While determining a claimant’s RFC, an ALJ can only factor in symptoms objectively arising from the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, id. § 404.1545(a)(2)—asserted impairments found to not be medically determinable “will not be found to affect [a claimant’s] ability to do basic work activities,” id. § 404.1529(b). ... It necessarily follows that the RFC determination—which was predicated upon the finding that Plaintiff’s statements about the severity of her symptoms were inconsistent “with the medical evidence,” R. 64—was skewed by the ALJ’s inability to consider whether Plaintiff’s fibromyalgia provided an objective basis for Plaintiff’s statements about the severity of her symptoms.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to address how a severe impairment affects the claimant’s residual functional capacity, including any resulting work-related limitations.

Hager v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2023-10-17(a)(2)

Once a claimant’s impairments are deemed severe at Step Two, the ALJ must discuss their impact throughout the remainder of the disability determination. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... Indeed, the ALJ entirely failed to evaluate whether or not there are any work-related limitations that flow from Plaintiff’s severe impairment of pseudo-seizures or how the RFC addresses them or need not.

Section 404.1545(e) requires an ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all of a claimant’s impairments when formulating residual functional capacity; omitting an impairment at step two is harmless if the ALJ considers it in that assessment.

Gonzales v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2023-11-03(e)

In formulating the RFC, an ALJ “consider[s] the limiting effects of all [of a claimant’s] impairment(s).” 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(e), 416.945(e). In turn, the failure to address an impairment at step two is harmless error where the ALJ considers that impairment in formulating the RFC. See Lewis v. Astrue, 498 F.3d 909, 911 (9th Cir. 2007). But here, the ALJ’s decision discussed neither chronic pain disorder nor degenerative disc disease in formulating the RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all impairments, including those that are not severe, when assessing residual functional capacity.

MINOR v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2023-11-07(a)(2)

The ALJ considers all impairments in this analysis, not just those deemed to be severe. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2); SSR 96-8p. ... Although Plaintiff did not list obesity as an impairment the ALJ still considered it and included it in his findings.

A severe mental impairment does not itself require a residual functional capacity finding that bars unskilled work.

Hankins v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · filed 2023-11-27

Similar to how the limitations found in the PRT analysis in step two are not equivalent to the MRFC analysis in steps four and five of the sequential process, see supra at 6–7, an ALJ’s determination of a “severe impairment” in steps two and three does not require a determination in steps four and five that the plaintiff cannot perform even “unskilled” work.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an RFC assessment to consider all medically determinable impairments, including those found nonsevere.

Marshall v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · filed 2023-12-12(a)(2)

In addition, the Court finds that the ALJ failed to correctly determine plaintiff’s RFC. ... See 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2), 416.945(a)(2) (“[w]e will consider all of your medically determinable impairments...including your medically determinable impairments that are not 'severe'...when we assess your residual functional capacity”).

An RFC assessment must consider severe and non-severe impairments, including a diagnosed chronic pain syndrome apart from reported pain symptoms.

Terriquez v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · filed 2023-12-19

The ALJ must consider both severe and non-severe impairments in formulating the RFC. ... The Court is unable to determine whether the ALJ considered Plaintiff’s CPS apart from her reported symptoms of pain, as required by the regulations.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider the combined effects of all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments.

Acosta v. Social Security Administration · filed 2023-12-28(a)(2)

In assessing a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ is required to consider “the combined effect of all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, whether severe or not severe.” ... First, the Court agrees with the Commissioner that the ALJ adequately considered her shoulder pain resulting from a lipoma, as well as the degenerative changes to her spine and hands throughout the sequential evaluation process.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider limitations caused by medically determinable impairments and their symptoms.

Thomas, Sheila v. Kijakazi, Kilolo · filed 2023-12-27

In determining a claimant’s RFC, the ALJ considers the limiting effects of medically determinable impairments and any symptoms caused by those impairments, including pain. ... Accordingly, this case must be remanded for further consideration of Thomas’s mental health symptoms, particularly those associated with borderline personality disorder.

Section 404.1545(e) requires an RFC assessment to account for the limiting effects of all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere impairments and pain.

Wright v. Commissioner Social Security Administration · filed 2024-01-03(e)

The RFC must contemplate the “total limiting effects” of all medically determinable impairments, both “severe” and “non-severe,” including the effect of pain.

An RFC assessment must consider all of a claimant’s impairments, severe and non-severe, individually and together.

Fittler v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2024-01-17(a)(2)

The ALJ must consider all of a claimant’s impairments—both severe and non-severe—singly and in combination, when formulating a claimant’s RFC.

An ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments together when assessing residual functional capacity.

Bumgardner v. O'Malley · filed 2024-01-30(a)-(c)

However, an ALJ is supposed to consider all medically determinable impairments together when assessing the RFC. See generally 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)-(c).

An RFC assessment must consider all relevant evidence and medically determinable impairments, including limitations on the claimant’s ability to sit.

Christesen v. Kijakazi · filed 2024-02-02(a)(2) and (3)

The ALJ must consider all relevant evidence in the record and all of a claimant’s medically determinable impairments, whether severe or not, when assessing a RFC. Carmickle, 533 F.3d at 1164; Robbins v. Soc. Sec. Admin., 466 F.3d 880, 883 (9th Cir. 2006); 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2) and (3). ... Accordingly, the ALJ’s failure to explain her findings concerning Plaintiff’s ability to sit is harmful error which requires remand.

An RFC assessment must account for the functional effects of the claimant’s impairments and associated symptoms in combination.

Simison v. O'Malley · filed 2024-03-01(a)

This case will be reversed and remanded so the ALJ can provide a fulsome explanation of how Plaintiff’s RFC may be affected by her narcolepsy and chronic tiredness caused by her medications. The ALJ shall also take measures to assess how all of Plaintiff’s severe impairments and their associated symptoms, when considered in combination, support the RFC analysis.

An ALJ assessing residual functional capacity must consider all medically determinable impairments, including those not found severe at step two.

Leverett v. O'Malley (CONSENT) · filed 2024-02-16(a)(2)

At the fourth step of the sequential evaluation process, an ALJ must consider all medically determinable impairments, not just the “severe” impairments identified at step two.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ assessing residual functional capacity to consider all medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Garcia v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2024-02-16(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ must consider all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

Section 404.1545(a) requires an RFC assessment to consider relevant medical opinions and the combined effects of all impairments, including those that are not severe.

(SS) Ward v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2024-03-01(a)

The ALJ must consider all of the relevant medical opinions as well as the combined effects of all of the plaintiff’s impairments, even those that are not “severe.” 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a); 416.945(a); Celaya v. Halter, 332 F.3d 1177, 1182 (9th Cir. 2003).

An RFC assessment must consider all of the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including non-severe impairments.

Hicks v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2024-03-04(a)(2)

In making this assessment, the ALJ must consider all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including any non-severe impairments identified by the ALJ at step two of his or her analysis.

An ALJ’s failure to identify an impairment at step two can be harmless when the ALJ considers it in assessing residual functional capacity.

WOLFF v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2024-02-16(a)(2)

The Court finds that the ALJ’s failure to consider Plaintiff’s cervical spine impairment at Step Two was harmless error. The ALJ adequately considered Plaintiff’s cervical spine impairment in determining her RFC.

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider limitations from all medically determinable impairments, including related symptoms and medication side effects.

Black v. O'Malley · filed 2024-03-04(a)

The Commissioner is reminded that consideration must be given to the limitations and restrictions imposed by all of Black’s medically determinable impairments during the relevant period, including limitations imposed by related symptoms such as fatigue as well as medication side effects. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545 (severe and non-severe impairments and related symptoms must be considered).

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider the combined limiting effects of severe and non-severe impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

Le Vitre v. O'Malley · filed 2024-03-07(a)(1), (e)

At step four of the sequential analysis, the ALJ was required to consider the limiting effects of all of Plaintiff’s impairments together, regardless of severity. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1523; 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(1); 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(e). Despite the ALJ’s conclusory statement at step two, absent any analysis or explanation at step four as to how the ALJ assessed Plaintiff’s migraine headaches, or any potential limiting effect, the Court cannot review whether the absence of any related limitation is supported by substantial evidence in the record as whole.

An RFC assessment must consider all relevant evidence, including how obesity affects a claimant’s other impairments and ability to work.

Valencia v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · filed 2024-03-14(a)

The RFC is an ALJ’s assessment, based on all relevant evidence, of a claimant’s ability to work, despite her impairments. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1545(a), 416.945(a). ... Nevertheless, the ALJ’s decision does not reflect that he considered the effects of Plaintiff’s obesity on her other impairments in the assessment Plaintiff’s RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires an ALJ to consider the combined effects of severe and non-severe impairments when assessing residual functional capacity.

HEATH v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY · filed 2024-03-14(a)(2)

An ALJ must consider the combined effects of both severe and non-severe impairments in determining an RFC.

Section 404.1545(a)(3) requires the ALJ to consider all medically determinable impairments, including nonsevere ones, and all relevant medical and other evidence when assessing residual functional capacity.

Becker v. Kijakazi · filed 2024-03-11(a)(3)

In formulating the RFC, the ALJ must account for all the claimant’s medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe, and evaluate “all of the relevant medical and other evidence.”

Before step four, the ALJ must assess residual functional capacity using all known medically determinable impairments, including those that are not severe.

Kelley v. Social Security Administration, Commissioner · filed 2024-03-12(a)(2)

And before conducting the analysis required in Step 4, the ALJ must first determine the claimant’s residual function capacity (“RFC”), which is the claimant’s ability to perform work of any kind despite “all . . . medically determinable impairments” of which the ALJ is aware, “including . . . medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe.’” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2).

Section 404.1545 requires an RFC assessment to consider a claimant’s physical, mental, and other abilities in light of all impairments.

Solomon v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2024-03-19(b)-(d)

The ALJ makes this determination by considering a claimant's physical, mental, and other abilities in light of all her impairments. Schink, 935 F.3d at 1268 (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(b)-(d)).

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires the ALJ to consider all of a claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, when determining residual functional capacity.

Thrun v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · filed 2024-03-25(a)(2)

In making an RFC determination, the ALJ must consider all the claimant’s impairments, including impairments that are not severe. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(a)(2). ... Plaintiff fails to show that the ALJ did not properly consider the record or that there was additional record evidence the ALJ failed to consider. Accordingly, the Court finds that the ALJ’s RFC determination has sufficient support in the record.

An ALJ must consider the combined effect of all impairments, including nonsevere impairments, when determining residual functional capacity.

Farell V SSA · filed 2024-03-25(e)

The Court agrees with Farrell that in defining her RFC, the ALJ was “obligated to consider the combined effect of all of Plaintiff’s impairments, even her nonsevere impairments.” (R. 17 at Page ID 876) (emphasis in original) (citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.1545(e)).

Section 404.1545 requires the ALJ to consider an impairment’s effect on a claimant’s residual functional capacity, even if the impairment was not found severe.

Herrero v. Commissioner of Social Security · filed 2024-03-20(a)

The ALJ’s election not to discuss or assign any work-related limitations in the RFC based upon the sleep apnea impairment cannot be upheld as ... supported by substantial evidence.

Section 404.1545(a)(2) requires consideration of all medically determinable impairments in assessing residual functional capacity, including nonsevere impairments; an earlier classification error does not require reversal when the ALJ adequately considers the impairment in that assessment.

Quantrille v. Social Security Administration · filed 2024-03-25(a)(2)

Thus, even if Plaintiff’s neck issues were a medically determinable impairment, they were adequately considered in formulating the RFC, and there was no error.

Section 404.1545(e) requires the ALJ to consider the limiting effects of all a claimant’s impairments, including those that are not severe, when determining residual functional capacity.

Rosson v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration · filed 2024-03-29(e)

When formulating the claimant’s RFC, the ALJ will consider the “limiting effects of all [the claimant’s] impairments, including those that are not severe.” Id. § 404.1545(e). Because the ALJ properly considered all the Applicant’s limitations in determining his RFC, the hypotheticals she posed to the VE were also “supported by substantial evidence in the record and reflecting all the claimant's limitations.” Hill v. Astrue, 698 F.3d 1153, 1161 (9th Cir. 2012). The ALJ thus did not err.