Section 54 Special Medical-Vocational Profiles or "Adverse" Profiles

• Library: Social Security Administration Practice and Procedure (2011 Ed.)

There are three combinations of age, education, and work experience, considered at Step 5 before referring to the medical-vocational rules, that establish the presumption that the claimant is disabled:

1. The arduous unskilled-work profile in SSR 82-63 requires that the claimant:

· has a work history of at least 35 years of arduous unskilled work;

· can no longer perform this work because of a severe impairment; and

· has marginal (6^th grade) or less education.

2. The no-work-experience profile in SSR 82-63...