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SILVEIRA v. APFEL

Nos. 97-56186, 98-55225.

204 F.3d 1257 (2000)

Ernesto SILVEIRA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Defendant-Appellee. Efrain Vargas, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 2, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Rohlfing, Santa Fe Springs, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

David R. Mazzi, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee (Silveira v. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security Administration).

D.J. Edelman, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee (Vargas v. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security Administration).

Before: BROWNING, WIGGINS, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

These cases raise a common legal question: whether, for the purpose of Social Security disability determinations, a skilled or semi-skilled work history that produced no transferable skills should be treated as equivalent to an unskilled work history. We conclude it should and reverse and remand for reconsideration.

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Both Ernesto Silveira and Efrain Vargas challenge the Commissioner's findings

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