How does the Social Security Administration decide if I’m disabled or not?
Voodoo. Just kidding. There is a 5-step sequence that the examiners and Judges use. ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Definitions Substantial gainful activity means work that involves significant physical or mental duties done for pay or profit, eight hours per day, five days per week. Residual functional capacity is your remaining physical and/or mental capacity to perform work. Disability means any physical or mental conditions that are severe enough to limit one’s work performance. Partial disability occurs when you cannot perform some or all of the work you could have performed before your impairment, but the Social Security Administration does not recognize this as a compensable condition. Impairment is a mental or physical condition that diminishes or prevents one from working. Listing of Impairments means specific symptoms, signs, laboratory findings that are presumed to be severe enough to prevent you from working a year or longer. These are in the regulations written by the Soc
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