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<p>Social Security uses Vocational Experts (VEs) to provide evidence at hearings before an administrative law judge (ALJ). VEs provide services for SSA under a BPA to provide expert witness services for the Office of Hearings Operations (OHO).</p>
<p>As a VE, you will provide impartial expert opinion evidence that an ALJ considers when making a decision about disability. You will review the provided exhibits prior to the scheduled hearing. You will usually testify in person at a hearing, although you may be asked to testify by video teleconferencing (VTC) or by telephone, and sometimes you may provide opinions in writing by answering written questions called interrogatories.</p>
<p>All interested vendors must register and apply through FedConnect in order to be considered for a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Social Security Administration. The website address is <a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.fedconnect.net/FedConnect/Default.htm" title="takes you to the FedConnect.net website">www.fedconnect.net</a>.</p>
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<p>The ALJ will ask you questions before you testify to establish your independence and impartiality, and your qualifications and competence to testify. The ALJ will question you and the claimant and his or her representative may also question you. The ALJ has the authority to determine the propriety of any questions asked. The hearing will be recorded. After the hearing, the ALJ will consider all the evidence and issue a written decision. The ALJ may also ask you to answer written questions called interrogatories if supplemental information is needed.</p>
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<p>ALJs use VEs in many cases in which they must determine whether a claimant can do his or her previous work or other work. A VE provides both factual and expert opinion evidence based on knowledge of:</p>
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<li>An understanding of how we determine whether a claimant is disabled especially at steps 4 and 5 of the <em>sequential evaluation process</em></li>
<li>Involvement in or knowledge of vocational counseling and the job placement of adult, handicapped workers into jobs.</li>
<li>Knowledge of, and experience using, vocational reference sources of which the agency has taken administrative notice under 20 CFR <a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=2594ec0c85fdfaa8776795212d6faa83&mc=true&node=se20.2.404_11566&rgn=div8" title="takes you to the ecfr.gov website">404.1566</a>(d) and <a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=8adcdf49e6c8a1f29bed10b5dbff5adb&mc=true&node=se20.2.416_1966&rgn=div8" title="takes you to the ecfr.gov website">416.966</a>(d), including:
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<li>The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and the Selected Characteristics of Occupations Defined in the Revised Dictionary of Occupational Titles (SCO);</li>
<li><a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html" title="takes you to the County Business Patterns website" >County Business Patterns</a> and <a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.census.gov/topics/employment.html" title="takes you to the Census reports website" >Census reports</a> published by the Bureau of Census;</li>
<li>The <a class="disclaimer" href="https://www.bls.gov/ooh/" title="takes you to the Occupational Outlook Handbook website" >Occupational Outlook Handbook</a> published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and</li>
<li>Any occupational analyses prepared for SSA by various state employment agencies.</li>
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<p>You will provide evidence by answering questions posed by the ALJ and the claimant or the claimant’s representative. Questions will typically be framed based on hypothetical findings of age, education, work experience, and functional limitations. You may answer questions about issues that could be decision in
a case, such as whether a claimant could still do his or her previous work given hypothetical findings about functional limitations an ALJ will provide you. You should never comment on medical matters, such as what you believe the medical evidence indicates about the claimant’s diagnosis or the functional limitations caused by the claimant’s impairment(s) (SSA’s term for medical conditions), or whether you believe the claimant is disabled.</p>
<p>You will rarely have the opportunity to question the claimant directly during the hearing. If you have any questions—e.g., about an aspect of a claimant’s testimony—or if you need more information, you should inform the ALJ. The ALJ will decide whether the information is pertinent and how it should be elicited; the ALJ may ask the question himself or herself or allow you to ask the question.</p>
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