SGA AND PRW
Makes the final SGA determination and has jurisdiction over this and determines the relevancy of work when it is material to the claim.
What is the Field Office (FO)?
The point at which the potential onset date must be clarified.
What is prior to adjudication?
The Ages and RFCs that require us to apply "the very little, if any, vocational adjustment standard."
What are age 55 and sedentary and age 60 and light?
An RFC with sitting, standing, and walking that adds up to less than 8 hours results in an inability to sustain in all cases? True or False?
False. If the RFC does not preclude the claimant's PRW as actually performed, there is no inability to sustain and the claimant can perform his or her PRW as actually performed.
The practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science, or trade, combined with the ability to apply them in practice.
What is a skill?
Performed during the relevant period, for long enough to learn it, and at SGA level.
What is PRW?
Has the final say in determining when a period of work was an unsuccessful work attempt (UWA)
Who is DDS? (However, the FO can make a suggestion).
Assembly, clerical, supervisor.
What are occupations with skills likely to transfer to light or sedentary work?
An inability to deal with changes in a routine work setting results in an inability to sustain in all cases? True or False?
True. SR 85-15 states that this is a basic mental demand of competitive unskilled work; thus, resulting in an inability to sustain.
An effort to do work in employment or self-employment that discontinues or reduces to non-SGA levels after a short time because of the impairment or removal of special conditions related to the impairment that are essential to the further performance of the work.
What is an Unsuccessful Work Attempt (UWA)?
Earnings that are below the trial work period (TWP) service month thresholds levels.
What is Clearly not SGA?
A description that includes dates, detailed job duties, use of tools and equipment, and exertional information (physical and mental demands).
What is a complete job description?
Nurse's aide, commercial truck driving, fishing, mining, and agriculture (occupations in an isolated industry).
What are occupations unlikely to have transfererable skills to any work?
If there are inconsistencies between the claimant's 3369s, we can always rely on the most recent report? True or false?
False. Generally, we assume the most recent information is the most up to date. However, if there are conflicts in the evidence, these inconsistencies must be addressed and resolved in the vocational analysis.
An administrative assessment of a claimant's maximum remaining capacity for work on a sustained basis.
What is an RFC?
Employers, co-workers, family members, third parties, prior filing, SSA-3369, medical and nonmedical sources, and queries.
What are secondary sources for vocational documentation?
Ensuring that an allowance or denial is policy compliant.
What is the primary purpose of OQR review?
These two separate work trait searches must be performed if skills are unlikely to transfer.
What is Work Field (WF) and Material, Products, Subject Matter, and Services (MPSMS)?
Under the current rule for evaluating PRW, we only look at work performed within the last five years? True or False?
False. In some cases, work done prior to the 5 year period may be considered relevant to establish a continuity of skills, knowledge, and processes between such work and the individual's more recent occupations.
A group of jobs in many different worksites with a common set of tasks.
What is an occupation?
Can be PRW if it was performed in the relevant period, at SGA, and for long enough to learn it - even though it was not performed over the course of a 5-day or 40-hour workweek.
What is part-time work, alternate work schedule, or mandatory overtime?
A claimant reports that his PRW involves working 10 hours a day, 4 days a week. The MC returns an RFC for light level exertion. This inconsistency needs to be resolved.
What is the alternative work schedule?
Heavy work and very heavy work is unlikely to provide transferable skills to THIS level of exertion.
What is sedentary level?
The claimant has an 10th grade education and his past work in the last five years appears arduous and unskilled in nature. We will only ask the claimant questions regarding the last five years. True or False?
False. We should ask claimant questions under Special Vocational Profile for Arduous Unskilled Work.
A documentation deficiency when there is insufficient vocational documentation to determine work history, including recent education for direct entry, transferable skills, physical, mental, and environmental demands of work and relevance of past work.
What is a Group 1, 53?