The Social Security Administration has issued new instructions in its POMS manual on transferability of skills for purposes of determining disability. The sections affected are:
At first glance I don't see anything that makes a difference but this is a sensitive enough subject that it bears a closer reading than I have given it to this point.
My longstanding opinion is that transferability of skills should only be found quite rarely. Those who really did have transferable skills almost certainly transferred them and didn't file disability claims.
With the proposed reduction in PRW from 15 to 5, many fewer claimants will be denied on this issue. The POMS provisions on this issue will all have to be changed after the regs change.
ReplyDeleteBut DDS please when an SSA3369 says I supervised 10 people 8 hours a day could you develop that. Oh also please stop citing voc rule 202.06 at age 51 and you do know border line age does not allow retroactively. Just a frustrating DQB employee here. Yea shut down
ReplyDeleteVocational Expert here. I rarely say that there are transferable skills. There really are a very narrow band of jobs that have them. Some of the tools that are used to determine TS give odd jobs that I would never say.
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