Index of the California Social Security Attorney Blog
I. Vocational Expert Cross-Examination
- Achilles Heel, Vocational Expert Cross-Examination, NOSSCR June 2017
- Shameless Plug – Vocational Expert Cross-Examination – at NOSSCR June 2017
- Vocational Expert Cross — Slides from Vegas
- Serial Hypothetical Questions – Makes Cross Impossible
- Minimal or Superficial Contact with Coworkers and Supervisors — A Debilitating Limitation
- How to Cross-Examine a Vocational Expert on Superficial Contact with Supervisors
- Surprise and the Post-Hearing Brief
- When to Cross-Examine Vocational Experts
II. Numbers
- The numbers game
- The Vocational Expert is Not a Statistician
- It Really is Time to Object to Vocational Experts Giving Numbers Testimony — Always
- Vocational Experts, Trains, Automobiles, and Lies
III. Vocational Resources
- Social Security Ruling 00-4p Warrants No Deference
- Glossary of Terms for the Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Unskilled Light Work and the Occupational Outlook Handbook
- No High School, Unskilled Work and the OOH
- Can We Refer to the O*NET in Disability Cases?
- Production Workers, All Other, and the Occupational Employment Quarterly
- Obsolete Occupations
- Transferable Skills Analysis
- Free v. Social Security Administration, Atmospheric Conditions Includes Dust, Fumes, and Gases
- Occupational Requirements Survey, SSA, and Proof of Work
- County Business Patterns and a National Program of Adjudication
- The Future of the O*NET for SSA Adjudication
IV. Vocational Factors
V. Occupational Groups
1. Production Workers, All Other, SOC 51-9199
- Production Workers, all other SOC 51-9199
- Understanding Production Workers, All Other — SOC 51-9199
- Production Workers, All Other — List of DOT Industries and Number of Occupations
- Production Workers, All Other, and the Occupational Employment Quarterly
- Production Workers, All Other — Are There Significant Numbers of Unskilled Jobs?
- Production Workers, All Other and the Existence of Any Sedentary Work
- Final Assembler, Lens Inserter, and the Optical Goods Industry
- Production Workers, All Other and the Optical Goods Industry
- How Much of Production Workers, All Other, Requires Medium Exertion?
2. Packing Jobs
3. Cashiering
4. Clerical and Clerks
- Call-Out Operator (DOT 237.367-014) No Longer Exists
- Counter Clerks — DOT 249.366-010
- Furniture Rental Consultants 295-357-018
- Furniture Rental Consultants part II
- Investigator, Dealer Accounts, 241.367-038
- Order Clerk, Food and Beverage, 209.567-014
- Vocational Experts Will Say Anything
- Parimutuel-Ticket Checker 219.587-010 — Sedentary Job Numbers
5. Sewing Machine Operators
6. Inspectors
7. Surveillance Systems Monitor
VI. Policy, Ethics, and Professionalism
- Chiclets, Poverty, and Policy
- Is the Attorney Representative All that AND a Bag of Potato Chips?
- Test Your Knowledge of How the Disability Insurance Benefit Program Works
- How Did You Do on the Test?
- Rules Matter — Cuevas v. Hartley and Kozinski’s Dissent
- Rudolph Patterson, NOSSCR founder, has passed
- What Happens When Allowance Rates Drop … to the Public Fisc
- Brief Writing Tips in SS cases
- Senator Coburn’s Suggestions for SS Disability as He Leaves Congress
- I answer the questions from the NOSSCR conference in Las Vegas
- Recent Spate of Disability Fraud Discussions
- How to Find a Lawyer
- Social Security Disability Adjudcation — Get Real
- SSA Makes its Own Case for the Disability Program
- An Open Letter from Former Commissioners of the Social Security Administration
- Wall Street Journal and Binder & Binder
- The Eastern District of California – Fresno Division
- More on Judges that Vary from the Norm
- Administrative Law and the Lottery
- Some Judges Can’t Say No, but Others Can’t Say Yes
- Trust Fund Exhaustion One Year Sooner — 2036 !!!
- Retirement Program Broke in 2037
- Medicare and a Partial Solution
- Social Security and Paternity
VII. Agency Policy – The Regulations, Rulings, POMS, and HALLEX
- Social Security Rulings 16-3p and 96-7p
- Social Security Rulings 96-7p and 16-3p
- The Treating Physician Rule Will Die, Now What?
- The Treating Physician Rule
- Shapiro v. Social Security Administration — ALJ firing upheld
- ODAR Hasn’t Vetted POMS … So What?
- Subsequent Applications — Just Do It
- Subsequent Applications and Fees — Oh My
- Social Security Ruling 11-1p
- NOSSCR Conference in Baltimore – May 2011
VIII. EAJA Fees
- EAJA Timeliness and Prematurity
- The EAJA Offset and 406(b) Fees
- EAJA Offset
- Hardisty v. Astrue– EAJA and Unreached Issues
- Court Scrutiny of EAJA Settlements with a Federal Agency
- Notes on McLean v. Colvin – and EAJA Case
- When the Commissioner Stipulates to Remand, the Plaintiff Always Gets EAJA Fees
- The Court Orders the Payment of Benefits and SSA Drags Its Feet
IX. Contingency Fees
- The Fallacy of the Labor Value Matrix – Contingency Fees
- Fee Petitions and Travel Time in Social Security Cases
- May a Representative Charge for Time After the Favorable Decision in Social Security Cases?
- May a Representative that Worked on a Case and Subsequently Appointed Annotate on the Itemization Services Provided Before the Actual Appointment?
- EM-13024 And Fees to Representatives that Waive Direct Payment
- OPINION LETTER ON REFERRAL FEES
- NOSSCR Conference in Baltimore – May 2011
X. Agency Policy
- The Five-Day Rule
- Electronic Folders … the New SSA
- Electronic Banking and Social Security
- SSA announces top baby names
XI. Court Decisions
- Hey Courts — Apply the Law in Effect at the Time of Decision
- The Limited Utility of Unpublished Opinions
- A Dangerous Trend — Re-Writing the ALJ Decision
- Attmore v. Colvin – Medical Improvement Standard
- Notes on McLean v. Colvin – and EAJA Case
- Notes on Finnegan-Crews v. Colvin
- Turning Down the Heat on the “Remand for the Payment of Benefits”
- Dominguez v. Colvin — the CAT and Award of Benefits
- Remand for Further Proceedings in Esparza v. Colvin
- Sheridan v. Colvin … another unpublished opinion
- Harshaw v. Colvin
- Phillips v. Colvin/Commissioner
- Young v. Colvin
- McLeod or Chaudhry — the Duty to Develop
- Beltran v. Astrue
- Hardisty v. Astrue– EAJA and Unreached Issues
- Taylor v. Commissioner of SSA
- Carrillo Yeras v. Astrue
- Aarestad v. Commissioner
- Scalia Prepares to do a 360?
- Keyser v. Commissioner of SSA
- Bassett v. Astrue
- Roberts v. Commissioner of SSA
- Lockwood v. Astrue
- Strauss v. CSSA
- Pending at the Supreme Court
