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Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977

Por: The Boston Globe Nation December 29, 2022

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He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart, and violent tremors.There was just one final step: A vocational expert hired by the Social Security Administration had to tell the judge if there was any work Heard... + full article



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