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- Title: Guzman v. Bowen
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 12, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, WOOD, JR., and FLAUM, Circuit Judges. Per Curiam. Doris Guzman appeals from the denial of social security disability benefits. The Social Security Regulations prescribe a sequential inquiry to be followed in determining whether a claimant is disabled. The following steps are addressed in order: (1) Is the claimant presently unemployed? (2) Is the claimant's impairment severe? (3) does the impairment meet or exceed one of a list of specific impairments? (4) Is the claimant unable to perform his or her former occupation? (5) Is the claimant unable to perform any work within the economy? An affirmative answer leads either to the next step, or on steps (3) and (5) to a finding that the claimant is disabled. A negative answer, at any point other than step (3), stops the inquiry and leads to a determination that the claimant is not disabled. Bunch v. Heckler, 778 F.2d 396, 399 n.5 (7th Cir. 1985) (citing Taylor v. Schweiker, 739 F.2d 1240, 1241 n.1 (7th Cir. 1984)). The only issue in this appeal is whether the Secretary in adopting the findings of his Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) correctly concluded that prior to January 1, 1982, appellant Guzman did not meet the mental impairment criteria applicable at Step 3 of the disability analysis.