I just signed up a new client who was initially denied disability benefits at step 4 of the sequential evaluation, based upon a job he last performed in 2016.

It is often an issue in a disability claim when a claimant with physical impairments has PRW at the sedentary exertional level, because that work can be hard to rule out.

In this case, however, the PRW is irrelevant because it was performed more than 5 years ago. Social Security adopted a 5-year PRW period back in June. This determination was made more than a month later.

It should be easy to fix at Reconsideration.