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Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) defined: The amount of time required for a typical employee to learn the techniques, acquire the information, and develop the facility needed for average performance in a job. SVP can be acquired in school, the military or at the work place.
Will I Be Found ‘Disabled’ Based On My Age? “Age”, in the world of Social Security Disability, is defined as one’s chronological age, but one attains a particular age the day before his or her birthday. Age becomes a factor in the determination of disability at step 5...
If an individual is age 50 or older and capable of performing work at no
greater than the medium level, a decisionmaker would need to consult the
following table to determine whether or not that individual should be found
disabled. They all require limited education and unskilled or no prior work
experience. Although the grids start at age 50, the first favorable grid at
the medium level starts at age 55.
Although not really a set of rules, the final category to consider are
those individuals capable of performing work at the heavy or very heavy
level.
In order to be found ‘disabled’ under the Social Security Disability program, you need to be unable to perform any work. Congress has recognized, however, that as an individual ages, it becomes more difficult for them to learn new skills and, and as a result, learn different types of work. SSA has accounted for this fact in it’s rules and regulations by
implementing a set of rules commonly referred to as the grid rules.
If an individual is age 50 or older and capable of performing work at no
greater than the sedentary level, a decisionmaker would need to consult the
following table to determine whether or not that individual should be found
disabled.
Residual Functional Capacity (RFC) is a tool used to assess what a claimant
is physically and/or mentally capable of doing or not doing during an
8-hour workday. The Social Security Administration’s rules and regulations
actually organize the grid rules by RFC levels.
SVP is a numbering system that is used to determine the amount of time
required for a typical employee to; learn the techniques, acquire the
information, and develop the facility needed for average performance in a
particular job. In this blog, we will discuss how SVP is used to determine
which grid rule applies.
As mentioned above, the grid rules really do not come into play until you reach age 50. However, there are some limited circumstances in which they can help…
The grid rules start coming into play the day you turn 50 years of age.
These rules make it easier for a 50-year-old to be found disabled than it
is for a 49-year-old. The grid rules permit many people age 50 or above who
are capable of sedentary work to be found disabled whereas that same
person, age 49, would not be found disabled.
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