I just saw that the National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR) has scheduled training on the Occupational Requirements Survey. They ask if it might be a replacement for the long outdated Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) that Social Security uses. This is the first I've heard of the ORS. Anyone else have info on it?
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https://www.bls.gov/ors/. A fair amount of data is published, but not for all jobs.
Oh, I was hoping that we would see the last of the silver wrappers and these jobs that haven't been updated since 1977.
https://www.ssa.gov/disabilityresearch/occupational_info_systems.html
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS)
In July 2012, we [SSA] entered into an interagency Agreement (IAA) with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to test the feasibility of using their National Compensation Survey (NCS) to collect new occupational data for use in our disability adjudication process.
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BLS used the NCS infrastructure to develop the ORS. Following three years of successful testing and improvements to the survey and methods, BLS began production data collection in 2015.
The OIS will combine BLS ORS data with task information from O*NET, MOC, and data from BLS’ Occupational Employment Statistics into a web-based, information technology platform called the VIT.
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Vocational Information Tool
The OIS will combine BLS ORS data with task information from O*NET, MOC, and data from BLS’ Occupational Employment Statistics into a web-based, information technology platform called the VIT.
Some attorneys have been submitting post-hearing objections to VE testimony based on initial ORS survey data/information.
I’m curious to see how OIS (which will be used by SSA and incorporate ORS data) will work if it’s ever finished. I have heard rumors it could eliminate the need for VEs in most, if not all, hearings. Don’t know how realistic that is, but it would certainly change hearing dynamics.
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