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2012-17934 Expedited Vocational Assessment Under the Sequential Evaluation Process Rule We are revising our rules to give adjudicators the discretion to proceed to the fifth step of the sequential evaluation process for assessing disability when we have insufficient information about a claimant's past relevant work history to make the findings required for step 4. If an adjudicator finds at step 5 that a claimant may be unable to adjust to other work existing in the national economy, the adjudicator will return to the fourth step to develop the claimant's work history and make a finding about whether the claimant can perform his or her past relevant work. We expect that this new expedited process will not disadvantage any claimant or change the ultimate conclusion about whether a claimant is disabled, but it will promote administrative efficiency and help us make more timely disability determinations and decisions. 2012-07-25 2012 7 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/07/25/2012-17934/expedited-vocational-assessment-under-the-sequential-evaluation-process https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2012-07-25/pdf/2012-17934.pdf Social Security Administration 470 We are revising our rules to give adjudicators the discretion to proceed to the fifth step of the sequential evaluation process for assessing disability when we have insufficient information about a claimant's past relevant work history to make the... 0960-AH26

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