...Chapter 6 analyzes the agency’s unique medical-vocational rules, or “grid” regulations and their work adjustment rules and complex adjudicative framework set out in charts (known as “grids”). This includes the grid’s usage in step 5 of the SSA’s sequential evaluation process; the use of the grid...

... analysis of the SSA’s use of the administrative notice doctrine and vocational expert testimony, including its development and use of unique “grid” regulations with predetermined medical-vocational conclusions and rules upon which to base work adjustment assessments. It explores why that system is broken...