
USCA1 Opinion

	




        December 28, 1995       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                                            ____________________        No. 95-1598                                ANGEL TORRES-MALDONADO,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                       SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO                   [Hon. Salvador E. Casellas, U.S. District Judge]                                               ___________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                                Cyr, Boudin and Lynch,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Raymond Rivera Esteves and Juan A.  Hernandez Rivera on brief  for            ______________________     _________________________        appellant.            Guillermo  Gil,  United States  Attorney,  Maria  Hortensia  Rios,            ______________                             ______________________        Assistant  United  States  Attorney,  Robert  M.  Pekrill,   Assistant                                              ___________________        Regional Counsel,  and  Wayne  G.  Lewis,  Attorney,  Social  Security                                ________________        Administration, on brief for appellee.                                 ____________________                                 ____________________                 Per Curiam.  Plaintiff-appellant  Angel Torres-Maldonado                 __________            appeals from  the  district court's  decision  affirming  the            denial of disability benefits by  the Secretary of Health and            Human  Services.   We  have carefully  reviewed the  parties'            briefs and the record on appeal.  Appellant's claims that the            ALJ  failed to consider his allegations  of disabling pain or            failed to  consider the cumulative effect  of his impairments            are belied by the  record.  We have  also concluded that,  in            presenting a hypothetical to  the vocational expert (VE), the            ALJ's misspoken reference to  an onset date of 1991,  did not            mislead  the  VE  as  the  description  of  impairments  that            followed  referred to  medical evidence  within  the relevant            time period.                 We affirm  on the  basis of  the district  court's well-                    ______            reasoned Opinion and Order dated May 10, 1995.                                         -2-
