[DO NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

________________________ No. 12

- 13669 Non

- Argument Calendar

________________________ D.C. Docket No. 8:11

- cv - 01350

- JSM

- TGW

GEORGE COLLIER, Plaintiff

- Appellant,

versus COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant

- Appellee.

________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida

________________________ (January 23, 2013) Before MARCUS , PRYOR and KRAVITCH , Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM : George H. Collier appeals the dismissal of his complaint against the Commissioner of Social Security for lack of subject matter jurisdiction

. 42 U.S.C.

Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 1 of 62 § 405(g). Collier sought judicial review of the denial of his request to reopen his application for disability benefits. We affirm. In June 1986, the Commissioner awarded Collier disability benefits based on a determination that h e had been disabled by schizophrenia since March of 198 1 , but Collier’s condition improved

. In February 1988, the Commission er notified Collier that his entitlement to benefits had ceased in July 1987 because he had proved capable of performing substantial gainful work as an insurance salesman

. The Commissioner relied on Collier’s work reports and earnings statements establish ing that he had worked more than 15 hours each week as an independent contractor between July 1986 and February 1988 and he had earned $350 while working as an agent between April and June of 1987. Although the Commissioner reinstated Collier’s benefits i n August 1987, his situation improved. I n July 1989, the Commissioner notified Collier that he had demonstrated an ability to perform substantial gainful work in January 1988 and that his benefits had ceased in March 1988. The Commissioner based h is decis ion on three sources of information: a work report that Collier submitted in June 1989; 1099 forms prepar ed by three insurance companies; and a letter Collier wrote to the Commissioner in which he reporting earning $20,419 between January and August of 1988

. The Commissioner also advised Collier to submit within ten days

Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 2 of 63 additional evidence that he wanted the Commissioner to consider before making a formal determination, but Collier did not submit any evidence

. In August 1989, the Commissioner issued an initial determination that terminat ed Collier’s disability benefits and that notified Collier of his right to seek reconsideration of the determination within 60 days. Collier did not submit a request for reconsideration , and the initial determination of the Commissioner became “binding.” 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.905; 404.987(a); see also id. § 4 0 4 .900(b). In November 1989, Collier sent the Commissioner a letter using letterhead styled “Collier & Associates.” In his letter, Collier stat ed that he remained under the care of a doctor; his income had decreased and he was penniless as of January 1989; he worked between 10 and 50 hours each week; and he “believ[ed] [he] [might] again be qualified for disability, . . . [but] w ould like to do wi thout it if [he] can.” In October 2008, Collier requested that the Commissioner reopen his application for benefits on the ground that there was an error on the face of the record because his schizophrenia had rendered him unable to understand the procedu res required to reinstate his benefits

. The Commissioner denied Collier’s request to reopen as untimely and without merit in the light of its records

. Collier

s ought review before an administrative law judge and the Appeals Council, both of which rul ed t hat the denial of Collier ’s request to reopen was not subject to administrative review and, alternatively, that his request lacked merit

.

Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 3 of 64 In June 2011, Collier filed a complaint against the Commissioner, who moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction

. Collier

a lle ged that he had a colorable constitutiona l claim that his schizophrenia rendered him unable to pursue his administrative remedies

. The Commissioner respond ed that the denial of Coll i er’s request to reopen was not subject to judicial review. The district court granted the motion to dismiss of the Commissioner. We review de novo the d ismiss al of a complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction , Sherrod v. Chater , 74 F.3d 243, 245 (11th Cir. 1996) , and review rel ated findings of fact for clear error , Carmichael v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Servs., Inc. , 572 F.3d 1271, 1279 (11th Cir. 2009). “[W] here a defendant raises a factual attack on subject matter jurisdiction, the district court may consider extrinsic evidence such as deposition testimony and affidavits. ” Id. In its review , the district court is not required to weigh the facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff

. Id. The district court correctly dismissed Collier’s complaint

. The Social Securit y Act limits judicial review to “ final decision [s] of the Commissioner

. . . made after a hearing

. ” 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). A final decision i s defined as the initial determination of the Commissioner about the right to benefits after a claimant has exhaust ed all available steps of the administrative review process

. 20 C.F.R. § 404.900(a)(1)

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. The denial of Collier’s request to reopen is not a

Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 4 of 65 “final decision” that is subject to judicial review. See Sherrod , 74 F.3d at 245

. As explained in t he regulat ions, the denial of a “ request to reopen a determination or a decision ” is an “administrative action that [is] not [an] initial determination [] . . . subject to the administrative review process . . . [or] to judicial review .” 20 C.F.R. § 404.903(l)

. The district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the administrative action of the Commissioner. A lthough a district court has subject matter jurisdiction to review the denial of a request to reopen i f a claimant makes a colorable claim abo ut the denial of a constitutional right , Coll i er’s claim is not colorable. Collier a rgu ed that h is schizophrenia rendered him incapable of pursuing his administrative remedies , but the district court did not clearly err in finding that the record belied Collier’s

a rgument
. In spite of his schizophrenia, Collier proved capable of performing substantial gainful work in part of 1987 and throughout 1988. Although Collier reported that his earnings had decrease d in 1989, Collier did not report any change in his mental condition , and he continued to work

. See id. § 404.1572(b) (“ Work activity is gainful if it is the kind of work usually done for pay or profit, whether or not a profit is realized. ”). And Collier s tated in his November 1989 letter to the Commi ssion that he understood he “[ might ] again be qualified for disability , ” yet he preferred to “do without” benefits

. In contrast to the claimant in Elchediak v. Heckler , 750 F.2d 892 (11th Cir. 1985) , who introduc ed evidence about receiving

Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 5 of 66 medical treatment for his schizophrenia shortly before the Commissioner denied his application for benefits, id. at 894, Collier failed to submit any evidence other than his self

- serving statement s that his mental condition had deteriorated before the Comm issioner issued his final determination

. Collier makes two other arguments, both of which fail . Collier argues that the Commissioner violated an order direct ing him to compil e “a Social Security transcript,” but Collier does not argue that he requires any evidence beyond that includ ed in the appellate record and the expanded record excerpts. Collier also argues about being entitled to have his benefits reinstated automatically in March 1990 , but Collier fails to cite any authority that supports his arg ument. See Fed. R. App. P. 28(a)(9). We AFFIRM the dismissal of Collier’s complaint. Case: 12-13669 Date Filed: 01/23/2013 Page: 6 of 6