Social Security Disability Advocate's Handbook
- Publisher:
- James Publishing
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-04
- Authors:
-
David Traver
David Ferrari - ISBN:
- 978-1-949517-84-2
Description:
Knowledgeably and effectively challenge vocational testimony with this book's pattern questions and supporting data. Problems with the DOT. How to attack other data sources used by vocational experts. Vocational information and analysis at Step Four. Vocational evidence at Step Five. Transferability of skills analysis. Includes a unique, 78-page annotated index/summary of the rulings
Content
- Preliminary Sections
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Standards of Review and Federal Court Remedies
- Topical and Sequential Evaluation Outlines
- SSR 96-1p: Application by the Social Security Administration (SSA) of Federal Circuit Court and District Court Decisions
- SSR 96-2p: Giving Controlling Weight to Treating Source Medical Opinions and 82 FR 15263 rescinding it with New Regulations (Rescinded effective March 27, 2017)
- SSR 96-3p and SSR 96-4p: (Rescinded June 14, 2018 as duplicative of SSR 16-3p)
- SSR 16-3p: Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims
- SSR 96-5p: Medical Source Opinions on Issues Reserved to the Commissioner (Rescinded effective March 27, 2017)
- SSR 17-2p: Evidence Needed by Adjudicators at the Hearings and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process to Make Findings about Medical Equivalence (Rescinded and replaced SSR 96-6p, effective March 27, 2017)
- SSR 16-3P, superseding SSR 96-7p: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claimss (Effective March 28, 2016)
- SSR 96-8p: Assessing Residual Functional Capacity in Initial Claims
- SSR 96-9p: Determining Capability to Do Other Work?Implications of a Residual Functional Capacity for Less Than a Full Range of Sedentary Work
- The Role of Reliable Vocational Information at the Social Security Administration
- The Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Structure, History, Reliability, and Validity
- Other Sources of Vocational Data
- Vocational Information and Analysis at Step Four of the Sequential Evaluation Process
- Vocational Evidence at Step Five of the Sequential Evaluation Process
- Transferability of Skills Analysis
- Attacking Vocational Expert Testimony
- Vocational Expert Testimony on the Number of Jobs Available at Step Five
Appendix
- Part 1: Instant Exhibits: Letter to Robert C. Angermeier dated 8/12/02 from Don Vander Vegt
- Part 2: Letter from Charles Louis Kincannon, Director, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau
- Part 3: Instant Exhibits: Mental Treating Source Statements
- Part 4: Appendices A through C from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Part 5: Mental RFC Assessment Form SSA-4734-F4-SUP
- Part 6: Form SSA-4734-U8 (1-89)
- Part 7: Page 45 of the SCO
- Part 8: SSA's Psychiatric Review Technique Form
- Part 9: Transferable Skills Worksheet (For PRW) and Transferable Skills Worksheet (For Alternate Jobs)
- Part 10: Vocational Expert Handbook
- Part 11: Assemblers Selected Characteristics, pages 277-288
- Part 12: Instant Exhibits: 137 Unskilled Sedentary Occupations in the DOT
- Part 13: Instant Exhibits: 2000 Census Forms, Long and Short Forms
- Part 14: Adult Listings of Impairments
- Part 15: 'Vocational Testimony in Social Security Hearings' by Daniel F. Solomon
- Part 16: Federal Register, October 29, 2007
- Part 17: Composite Jobs
- Part 18: OIDAP Comments
- Part 19: 2006 UC Letter
- Part 20: 2010 UC Letter
- Index