格雷厄姆诉社会保障署专员案

Joey Lane Graham applied for Supplemental Security Income on September 9, 2021, alleging disability beginning February 1, 2020, due to vascular issues, nerve damage, hypertension, and depression. The SSA denied his application initially and upon reconsideration. After an Administrative Law Judge hearing on November 9, 2023, ALJ Monica D. Jackson found Graham not disabled, a decision the Appeals Council declined to review. Graham sought federal court review. On June 30, 2025, Judge Anna M. Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama affirmed the Commissioner's decision, finding it supported by substantial evidence.

The court affirmed the Commissioner's decision denying supplemental security income benefits, finding the ALJ's determination supported by substantial evidence in the record.

Whether the ALJ's disability determination was supported by substantial evidence and whether the Commissioner properly applied the five-step sequential evaluation process under 20 C.F.R. § 416.920 in denying Graham's SSI claim.

The case illustrates the rigorous substantial evidence standard applied in federal judicial review of Social Security disability determinations. It reinforces the deference afforded to ALJ factual findings when supported by the record, serving as a reference for similar SSI appeals and highlighting the procedural barriers claimants face in challenging adverse disability decisions.