Opinion ID: 857822
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Heading: Direct Entry into Skilled Work

Text: The applicable regulation provides as follows: If you are of advanced age (age 55 or older), and you have a severe impairment(s) that limits you to sedentary or light work, we will find that you cannot make an adjustment to other work unless you have skills that you can transfer to other skilled or semiskilled work . . . or you have recently completed education which provides for direct entry into skilled work. -2- 20 C.F. R. § 404.1568(d)(4) (emphasis altered). Despite this clear language, which shows that the regulations refer to “skilled or semiskilled” work when that is what is meant, the magistrate judge found, and the Commissioner argues, that direct entry into semiskilled will suffice. Since we are not deciding the case on this ground, we only note that this position is doubtful.