Social Security Deletes Obsolete Jobs Used to Deny Claims
24th June 2024
The Social Security Administration is eliminating more than 100 obsolete jobs from its list of occupations it used for years to deny disability benefits to Americans under claims that they could earn money by finding jobs in those fields.
The agency had been using federal labor market data that in some cases had not been updated in almost 50 years, and some of the jobs that are now eliminated were “notorious examples of our failure to stay up to date,” according to Commissioner Martin O’Malley.