Case Name: Janice K. ANDREYKA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jo Anne B. BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Defendant - Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-02-26
Citations: 56 F. App'x 814
Docket Number: No. 02-15003; D.C. No. CV-00-02182-PGR
Parties: Janice K. ANDREYKA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jo Anne B. BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Defendant — Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 56
Pages: 814–815

Head Matter:
Janice K. ANDREYKA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jo Anne B. BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Defendant — Appellee.
No. 02-15003.
D.C. No. CV-00-02182-PGR.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 10, 2003.
Decided Feb. 26, 2003.
Before CANBY, O’SCANNLAIN and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
We reverse the district court's affir-mance of the Social Security Administration's denial of appellant Janice An-dreyka's application for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits. Where, as here, a Social Security claimant's testimony is medically supported, an Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") may reject that testimony "only by offering specific, clear and convincing reasons for doing so. The clear and convincing standard is the most demanding required in Social Security cases." Moore v. Comm'r of the Soc. Sec. Admin., 278 F.3d 920, 924 (9th Cir.2002). The ALJ's reasons for discounting Andreyka's testimony fail to meet this strict standard. We therefore accept Andreyka's testimony as true. Varney v. Sec'y of Health and Human Servs., 859 F.2d 1396, 1398-99 (9th Cir.1988). Because it is undisputed that Andreyka's testimony, if fully credited, would compel the conclusion that she is disabled within the meaning of the Social Security Act, we remand for an immediate award of benefits for the closed period from June 13, 1996, to August 26, 1999. See id.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
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