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TANG v. APFEL

No. 99-1977.

205 F.3d 1084 (2000)

Martin J. TANG, Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 8, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary K. Hoefer, Iowa City, Iowa, argued (Janice B. Binder, on the brief), for appellant.

Janice Barnes Williams, SSA, argued (William C. Purdy, AUSA, Frank V. Smith III, SSA, and Pamela J. McKimens, Asst. Regional Counsel, on the brief), for appellee.

Before BEAM and HEANEY, Circuit Judges, and KYLE, District Judge.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Martin J. Tang appeals the district court's judgment affirming the denial of his application for social security disability benefits. Because we believe the administrative law judge (ALJ) improperly discredited Tang's subjective complaints of pain, we reverse.

I. BACKGROUND

Tang, a high school graduate, was born on May 15, 1956. He spent sixteen years as a manual laborer, first as a mechanic, then as an employee of a paper...

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