Unskilled Work

In order to evaluate skills and determine the existence in the national economy of work you are able to do, Social Security can classify an occupation as unskilled work. They utilize materials published by the Department of Labor to make disability determinations under those definitions. Unskilled work may be classified as a job that may or may not require considerable strength.

For example, we consider jobs unskilled if the primary work duties are handling, feeding and off-bearing (that is, placing or removing materials from machines which are automatic or operated by others), or machine tending, and a person can usually learn to do the job in 30 days, and little specific vocational preparation and judgment are needed. A person does not gain work skills by doing unskilled jobs.

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