Alvarado v. Colvin

Record contained sufficient evidence to support ALJ’s denial of claimant’s application to renew his disability benefits based on his severe learning disability. While ALJ acknowledged that claimant could not do many jobs that required interaction with public or that demanded that claimant receive only oral instructions from his supervisor, ALJ could properly find that claimant’s medical condition had sufficiently improved so that he could do simple jobs that did not require interaction with public and allowed supervisor to demonstrate task before it was assigned to him. Moreover, ALJ was not required to accept contrary opinion from claimant’s expert who was hired by claimant’s counsel to bolster claimant’s claim for benefits, where expert did not treat claimant, and where expert’s most recent opinion was inconsistent with his prior opinions and opinions of other doctors. ALJ also properly noted that claimant lived by himself while pursuing college degree and performed delivery services for flower shop, which supported finding that claimant could perform jobs such as car washer or kitchen helper.