SSR 96-9p: Determining Capability to Do Other Work?Implications of a Residual Functional Capacity for Less Than a Full Range of Sedentary Work

• Author: David Traver/David Ferrari
• Pages: 377-402

SSR 969P

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CHAPTER 12

SSR 96-9p

Determining Capability to Do Other Work—

Implications of a Residual Functional Capacity

for Less Than a Full Range of Sedentary Work

§1200 INTRODUCTION

§1200.1 Purpose

§1200.2 Sedentary Work and the Grids

§1200.3 Grids as a Framework for Decisionmaking

§1200.3.1 Exertional and Nonexertional Limitations Under the Grids

§1200.3.2 Exertional Limitations for Less-Than-Sedentary

§1200.3.3 The Unskilled Sedentary Occupational Base

§1200.3.4 Erosion of the Unskilled Sedentary Occupational Base

§1200.3.5 Cases on Point

§1201 “NONDISABILITY” RULES

§1201.1 “Non-Disability” Rules (Rebuttable)

§1201.2 “Disability” Rules (Irrebuttable)

§1202 MENTAL DEMANDS OF WORK AND “SUBSTANTIAL LOSS”

§1203 EIGHT EXAMPLES OF THE TYPE AND EXTENT OF EXERTIONAL AND NONEXERTIONAL

RESTRICTIONS WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT EROSION

§1204 RESTRICTIONS WHICH MAY RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT EROSION

§1205 EXAMPLES THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED BY THE COMMISSIONER

§1206 ALJS AS VES?

§1206.1 Case on Point

§1206.2 VE Testimony From Other Hearings

§1207 PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE POLICIES UNDERLYING SSR 969P

§1208 USE OF THE SSR 966P POLICIES WITH MEDICAL SOURCES

§1208.1 Case on Point: Inability to Stoop Does Not Equal Disability Per Se

SSR 969P

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§1209 USE OF THE SSR 969P POLICIES IN ELICITING THE CLAIMANT’S TESTIMONY

§1209.1 Nonexertional Impairments—Mental

§1209.2 Nonexertional Impairments—Visual

§1209.3 Exertional Impairments

§1210 USE OF THE SSR 969P POLICIES IN ELICITING LAY WITNESS TESTIMONY

§1210.1 Nonexertional Impairments

§1210.2 Exertional Impairments

§1211 USE OF THE SSR 969P POLICIES IN CROSSEXAMINING

VOCATIONAL EXPERTS AT A DISABILITY HEARING

§1211.1 Disability by Direct Comparison

§1211.2 Disability by Analogy

§1211.3 Use of the SSR 96-9p Policies When Obtaining Independent Vocational Expert Reports