L.R.D. v. Berryhill

Record contained sufficient evidence to support ALJ’s determination that claimant-minor did not qualify for social security disability benefits until claimant’s start of second grade in August of 2015, even though claimant asserted that his asthma, lack of speech language skills and ADHD conditions qualified for benefits at earlier time. ALJ could properly find that claimant’s conditions did not functionally equal disability listing prior to August of 2015, and that claimant’s conditions became markedly worse after August of 2015, with respect to his behavioral issues, as well as his limitations in relating to others and caring for himself. Fact that ALJ did not make findings for all six functional equivalence domains specific to each age classification that claimant fell within did not require different result. Moreover, ALJ considered particular details of claimant’s various conditions, their history, his treatments and his reactions to said treatments. Ct. further rejected claimant’s argument that social security statute and regulations that prohibit retroactive award of benefits prior to claimant’s benefits application was unconstitutional.