Ruby Taylor filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy on May 24, 2019, with a plan confirmed that paid both the mortgage for her home and the payment on her car directly and estimated no dividend to general unsecured creditors, of which the U.S. Department of Education had a claim for $355774.02 or 92% of such claims.
The Fourth Circuit found that, in denying her Social Security Disability claim, the Administrative Law Judge had erred by misreading the severity findings in two of the three medical opinions and also erred by failing to consider each of the factors listed in 20 C.F.R. § 404.1527(c) before affording only negligible weight to Triplett’s treating physician’s medical opinion.
