McKinzey v. Astrue

Record contained sufficient evidence to support ALJ's denial of claimant's application for Social Security disability benefits, even though claimant alleged that she had sustained injuries to both of her arms, when ALJ ultimately determined that claimant could perform light work. ALJ could properly find that claimant was not credible when describing nature and extent of her disability where treating physician observed that his objective findings did not correlate with claimant's ongoing subjective complaints. Moreover, while ALJ improperly ignored opinion of state agency physician, any error was harmless where said physician did not personally treat claimant, and where opinion of treating physician supported ALJ's denial of benefits. Also, visual impairments suggested by medical record that included dry-eye syndrome were not of sort that would have significantly impacted claimant's ability to do light unskilled work.