Your illnesses, injuries, and related symptoms can cause limitations that make it harder to function at work. These limitations can be caused by pain as well as struggles with concentration and focus. Social Security may have to evaluate your ability to do ...
Pretty much everyone experiences sadness from time to time. After all, change and rejection are natural parts of life. However, if depression prevents you from working over an extended time frame, it may be a sign of depressive disorder. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) says that common ...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has finally issued a final rule on revised medical criteria for evaluating mental disorders for adults and children. This rule was issued on September 26, 2016 and become effective on January 17, 2017. The rule was published more than six years after the Notice of ...
In our last post, we delved into Social Security's Listings of Impairments, step 3 of the 5-step adult disability sequential evaluation process. But let's say that you cannot establish that your impairment or impairments meet or equal in severity one of SSA's listed impairments. Is it still possible to prove ...
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