Social Security Disability Advocate's Handbook

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Standards of Review and Federal Court Remedies
Chapter Three: Topical and Sequential Evaluation Outlines
Chapter Four: SSR 96-1p: Application by the Social Security Administration (SSA) of Federal Circuit Court and District Court Decisions
Chapter Five: SSR 96-2p: Giving Controlling Weight to Treating Source Medical Opinions
Chapter Six: SSR 96-3p: Considering Allegations of Pain and Other Symptoms in Determining Whether a Medically Determinable Impairment Is Severe
Chapter Seven: SSR 96-4p: Symptoms, Medically Determinable Physical and Mental Impairments, and Exertional and Nonexertional Limitations
Chapter Eight: SSR 96-5p: Medical Source Opinions on Issues Reserved to the Commissioner
Chapter Nine: SSR 96-6p: Consideration of Administrative Findings of Fact by State Agency Medical and Psychological Consultants and Other Program Physicians and Psychologists at the Administrative Law Judge and Appeals Council Levels of Administrative Review; Medical Equivalence
Chapter Ten: SSR 96-7p: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims: Assessing the Credibility of an Individual’s Statements
Chapter Eleven: SSR 96-8p: Assessing Residual Functional Capacity in Initial Claims
Chapter Twelve: SSR 96-9p: Determining Capability to Do Other Work—Implications of a Residual Functional Capacity for Less Than a Full Range of Sedentary Work
Chapter Thirteen: The Role of Reliable Vocational Information at the Social Security Administration
Chapter Fourteen: The Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Structure, History, Reliability, and Validity
Chapter Fifteen: Other Sources of Vocational Data
Chapter Sixteen: Vocational Information and Analysis at Step Four of the Sequential Evaluation Process
Chapter Seventeen: Vocational Evidence at Step Five of the Sequential Evaluation Process
Chapter Eighteen: Transferability of Skills Analysis
Chapter Nineteen: Attacking Vocational Expert Testimony
Chapter Twenty: Vocational Expert Testimony on the Number of Jobs Available at Step Five
Appendix
Index to Rulings
Index to Book