Price v. Colvin

Record failed to support ALJ’s denial of claimant’s renewed application for SSI disability benefits under circumstances where claimant was intellectually disabled and also suffered from psychiatric ailments. Claimant had received SSI benefits that were discontinued upon claimant going to prison, and while ALJ found that claimant was capable of gainful employment in spite of claimant’s psychiatric abnormalities, ALJ misinterpreted significance of claimant’s relatively improving GAF scores when finding that claimant was recovering from his mental ailments. Fact that claimant could perform simple household chores did not translate to finding that claimant could perform gainful employment.