Childhood Disability Evaluations - The Six Domains
Feb 27, 2012
The regulations evaluate six domains, and each domain is further broken down based on 5 distinct age categories:
(a)Newborn and young infant (birth to attainment of age 1)
(b)Older infants and toddle...
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Childhood Disability Evaluations - Functional Equivalence to the Listings
Feb 27, 2012
If a childs impairment does not meet or equal a listed impairment, even after consideration of other evidence from other sources, SSA must still assess the overall functional limitations the child expe...
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Childhood Disability Evaluations - Equaling the Listings
Feb 27, 2012
If a childs impairments or combination of impairments does not meet a Listing, SSA must determine whether the impairment(s) medically equal a listing. There are four (4) methods for deciding when a chi...
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Childhood Disability Evaluations - Meeting the Listings
Feb 27, 2012
Evaluation of claims for children still follows the sequential evaluation process. SSA must consider all available, relevant and material evidence, both medical and non-medical. [Note:This differs from...
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The 5-Step Sequential Evaluation in deciding Social Security Disability Claims
Jan 02, 2012
Social Security uses a five-step evaluation process for all adult disability claims to decide if a person is disabled. Here is what SSA says about the five steps:
The five-step sequential evaluation pr...
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Federal Court Sentence Four Remands and Objections to Magistrate's Reports.
Dec 09, 2011
The Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 405(g), authorizes a claimant to appeal to the Federal Courts from an adverse determination by the Social Security Commissioner. Ordinarily, when a Federal Co...
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Medical care, drugs, alcohol and smoking in Social Security claims
Dec 09, 2011
a)Lack of Medical care
It is much better to be proactive and address, at the very least in pre-hearing and post-hearing correspondence, as well as at the hearing itself, issues that are difficult to...
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Overview of the Basics of Veterans Administration Claims
Dec 02, 2011
The current state of war began on August 2, 1990 with the original Gulf War conflict, and has not yet ended.That means any veteran meeting eligibility requirements could be eligible for either a non-se...
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Handling Requests to File Subsequent Applications for Disability Benefits
Nov 30, 2011
SSA policy has long said that, if a judge denied your claim, you had the right to file an appeal AND, while your case was on appeal, you could file a new application too.That usually meant getting the ...
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Medicare Premiums in 2012
Nov 23, 2011
For a disabled claimant who has been receiving cash benefits from the Social Security Disability program for 24 months, one of the benefits that is provided is the option to purchase Medicare coverage ...
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