Opinion ID: 3014065
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Heading: Early Procedural History

Text: comprehensive psychological evaluation Ramirez is a 47-year-old divorced by Dr. Craig Weiss in April 1997. Dr. mother of two children with no significant Weiss concluded that Ramirez had an work experience. In August 1994, she “Anxiety Disorder . . . with significant applied for disability insurance benefits symptoms of depression, social phobia, and SSI under the Act, claiming that she o b se ss iv e -c o m pu l s iv e , a n d m o o d was disabled by asthma, bad nerves and a incongruent hallucinations.” thyroid condition. Six months later, she (Administrative Record (“A.R.”) at 303.) began receiving mental health treatment With respect to “functional limitations,” for an anxiety disorder. Dr. Weiss opined that Ramirez (1) had moderate restriction in activities of daily After the Commissioner denied living, (2) had marked to extreme Ramirez’s application initially and on difficulties in m aintain ing so cial reconsideration, she requested a hearing functioning, (3) experienced frequent before an ALJ. At Ramirez’s request, the deficiencies of concentration, and (4) ALJ dismissed Ramirez’s claim for continually experienced episodes of disability benefits. The ALJ denied deterioration. Ramirez’s remaining claim for SSI, finding that Ramirez was not disabled by Almost two years earlier, in 1995, her physical or mental impairments. The Dr. Louis Poloni, a state agency SSA Appeals Council subsequently psychologist, had completed a Psychiatric vacated the ALJ’s decision and remanded Review Technique Form (“PRTF”) on with instructions to explain certain which he had also assessed Ramirez’s findings and take additional evidence on mental impairments in four broad areas of Ramirez’s mental impairments. mental functioning. Dr. Poloni concluded that Ramirez: (1) had no restriction in