If your condition does not meet one of the Medical Listings that we discussed last time, SSA moves to step 4 of the sequential evaluation process. Here, SSA must determine whether you are capable of performing your past work. In considering past work, SSA only looks at the work that you performed in the past [...]
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Comments(0) Continuing with my discussion of the SSA disability evaluation process, today I am going to talk about Step 3, the Listing of Impairments.
Social Security’s Listings of Impairments is exactly what the name implies. It is a list of severe conditions that contains criteria for medical signs, findings and symptoms. If your medical condition meets these [...]
Once it is determined that a social security disability claimant is not engaged in substantial gainful activity, the next step in the claims analysis is to determine whether the individual suffers from a “severe impairment.”
SSA defines a “severe impairment” as any impairment or combination of impairments which significantly limits your physical or mental ability to [...]
Yesterday, I talked about the sequential evaluation process that SSA uses to determine whether an individual is disabled. Today, I am going to begin a discussion to explain each step in greater detail.
As you will recall, the first step of evaluation is to determine whether the individual who his claiming disability is currently engaged in “substantial [...]
Comments(0) Today, I thought I would start a short series of posts that explain the basics of filing for disability and the rules that the Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to determine your eligibility for benefits.
Before we get into the application and appeals process, it is important to understand what “disability” means to Social Security.
SSA regulations define [...]
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