Vocational expert means a vocational professional who has the qualifications required by the Commissioner and who provides expertise to disability adjudicators at the initial, Federal reviewing official, and administrative law judge levels of the administrative review process.
National registry of vocational experts. Vocational experts having the qualifications established by the Commissioner may be included in a registry that we will maintain. The registry will be maintained for and made available to State agencies.
Exactly what are those qualifications? But importantly, vocational experts should be require to disclose their financial interests with the Social Security Administration. An expert that has 100% of their revenue or income from appearing at Social Security hearings may have a different opinion than the expert who has only one client - the Social Security Administration.
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