NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
GUILLERMINA R.,

Plaintiff

- Appellant,

v. KILOLO KIJAKAZI, Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant

- Appellee. No. 20

- 56053
D.C. No. 5:19

- cv - 02315

- AFM

MEMORANDUM *

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Alexander F. MacKinnon, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted November 16, 2021

Pasadena, California
Before: BERZON and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and ANTOON, * * District Judge. Claimant Guillermina R. appeals the district court’s order affirming the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of her application for disability insurance benefits. We have jurisdic tion under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 42 U.S.C.

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36

- 3.

** The Honorable John Antoon II, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, sitting by designation. 

# FILED

DEC 27 2021
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS2

§ 405(g). Our review of the district court’s decision is d e novo, and “[ w ] e will ‘ set
aside a denial of benefits only if it is not supported by substantial evidence or is based on legal error. ’ ” Berry v. Astrue , 622 F.3d 1 228 , 1231 (9th Cir. 20 10 ) (quoting Bray v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec. Admin. , 554 F.3d 1219, 1222 (9th Cir. 2009)) . W e affirm.
1. Substantial evidence supports the administrative law judge ’s (ALJ) 1
formulation of Claimant’s residual functional capacity (RFC). The RFC is
consistent with Claimant’s contention that she is limited to standing and walking
for 6 hours in an 8

- hour workday. Although the RFC does not specify a 6

- hour limitation in so many words, the RFC explains that Claima nt can “perform light work as defined in 20 [C.F.R. § ] 404.1567(b),” with certain noted limitations. “Light work” has a well

- established meaning in disability law. Cf. Terry v.
Saul , 998 F.3d 1010, 1013 (9th Cir. 2021) (discussing “medium work , ” which is similarly defined )

. The regulation cited by the ALJ describes “light work” as

“ requir[ing] a good deal of walking or standing

. ” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1567(b). A Social Security ruling further explains : “[T]he full range of light work requires standing or wa lking, off and on, for a total of approximately 6 hours of an 8

- hour workday . Sitting may occur intermittently during the remaining time. ” SSR 83

-

1 Because t he Appeals Council denied Claimant’s request for review, the decision of the ALJ became the agency’s final decision. See 42 U.S.C . § 405(h).3

10, 1983 WL 31251, at *6 (Jan. 1, 1983). Claimant acknowledges and urges that
she is limited to 6 hours of standing and walking during an 8

- hour work day , and to the extent she asserts that “light work” necessarily requires more than 6 hours of standing and walking , her position is inconsistent with longstanding precedent regarding Social Security Ruling 83

- 10

. See, e.g. , Terry , 998 F.3d at 1014 n.1 (“[T]his court has cited [Social Security Ruling 83

- 10]’s definitions with approval on multiple occasions.”).
2. The ALJ properly relied on the vocational expert’s response to a hypothetical question even though that question did not expressly include a walking and standing limitation . The ALJ asked the expert to assume a capability to “perform light work” along with the limitations that the ALJ ultimately specified
in the RFC. Again, “light work” has a well

- established meaning , and “the expert here would have understood the ALJ’s question to imply” a 6

- hour standing and walking limitation , 2 Terry , 998 F.3d at 1014. Th us, “the ALJ’s reference to the term in h[er] questioning of the expert sufficiently conveyed ” the limitation

. Id. at
1013.
AFFIRMED.

2 Although 20 C.F.R. § 404.1567(b) alternatively describes “light work ” as “invol v [ing] sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls,” during oral argument Claimant disclaimed reliance on the presence of this al ternative in urging reversal

.