Court Opinion

ID: 9488653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 12:51:32.794681+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:00.977675
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HANSEN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from Part IV of our court’s opinion. I believe that substantial evidence in the record as a whole supports the ALJ’s finding that Montgomery could work as a Charge-Account Clerk, a job that exists in significant numbers in the economy.
The position of Charge-Account Clerk is classified as sedentary. The VE’s statement that Montgomery could not perform the work of a Sales Clerk, which involves promotional work and a “fair amount of stress,” does not necessarily translate to the conclusion the court makes that he cannot perform the Charge-Account Clerk position. I agree that, like the Sales Clerk position, the Charge-Account position involves working with people — but in a different capacity and a different context. In fact, the VE testified that the position of Charge-Account Clerk would fit a stress level of five while he put Sales Clerk commonly at a level six, which is beyond Montgomery’s level five capability.
I would affirm the judgment of the district court.