SSDRC
What is the Application Process for Social Security Disability and SSI?
How do you Win Benefits under Social Security Disability or SSI?
If I am determined disabled, how far back will Social Security pay benefits?
How do you prove your disability case if you have a mental condition?
What Can I Do to Improve My Chances of Winning Disability Benefits
Common Mistakes after Receiving a Denial of Social Security Disability or SSI Benefits
How to File for Disability - Tips for Filing
If You Get Approved For SSDI Will You Also Get Medicare?
How much does a Social Security disability attorney get paid?
Social Security Disability SSI Criteria and the Evaluation Process
How long does it take to be approved for SSI or Social Security disability?
What do you Need to Prove to Qualify for Disability Benefits?
Social Security Disability SSI and Fibromyalgia
Social Security Disability SSI and Degenerative Disc Disease
Can I Qualify For Disability and Receive Benefits based on Depression?
Answers to questions about SSD and SSI disability
What Disabilities Qualify for SSI and Social Security Disability Benefits?
Social Security Disability Status
Social Security Disability Tips — how a claim gets worked on
Social Security Disability, SSI Disability - Terms, Definitions, Concepts
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Social Security Disability SSI - Mental and Physical Residual Functional Capacity
How to prove you are disabled
and win disability benefits
Mental and physical residual functional capacity is a medical assessment of an individual’s ability to function in spite of the limitations imposed upon them by their disabling mental and/or physical conditions.
Social Security disability examiners consider your ability to meet the physical, mental, sensory, and other requirements of work, when they make their disability determinations. To that end, they will accept statements about your limitations from medical sources even if they have not formally examined you. However, your treating doctor’s statement (medical source statement) can be an invaluable to your disability claim.
Social Security considers an individual’s treating medical professional a more important source of information because they can provide Social Security with a unique perspective that other medical providers (i.e. hospital or acute caregivers) cannot provide.
If your treating physician provides a statement, make sure that it includes an opinion as to your ability to perform activities associated with work (i.e. your ability to walk, stand, lift, bend, see, hear, etc. if your disability is physical -- ability to interact with coworkers, public, and supervisors, remember directions, follow instructions, etc. if your disabling condition is mental).
They will also consider descriptions and observations with regard to the limitations caused by your disabling condition or conditions from family, friends, neighbors, and others.
If you have both mental and physical limitations, Social Security considers the total affect of your conditions when making their disability determination.
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Topics and Questions
How long does it take receive disability benefits after you are approved?
How Does Social Security Decide If You Are Disabled Or Not?
Can You Lose Your Social Security Disability Benefits When Your Case Is Reviewed?
Does A Certain Percentage of VA Disability Automatically Make You Eligible For Social Security Disability?
How does social security define disability?
Social Security Disability Requirements
Applying for disability benefits in Missouri
What Benefits come with SSI Disability?
Dire Need and Getting a Social Security Disability or SSI Case Speeded Up
Can I Do My Social Security Appeal Without Using A Lawyer?
Esophageal Cancer and Filing for Disability
Social Security Denied Me For SSD But Didn’t Have All My Medical Records, What Do I Do?
How are Decisions on SSDI and SSI Disability Claims made by SSA?
Facet Arthritis and Filing for Disability
Does your chance of winning disability benefits at a hearing depend on the judge you get?
Disability Criteria - Eligibility For Social Security and SSI Disability
Why Is It Hard to be Found Disabled for Social Security Disability or SSI for Seizures?
Foot Drop and Filing for Disability
When you file for disability and have both Mental and Physical Conditions
Filing for Social Security Disability or SSI with Crohn's Disease
Medical Source Statement for Social Security Disability or SSI
Filing for SSD Disability - When Should You put in a Claim?
If You Are Currently Working Are You Eligible To Receive Social Security Disability?
Frozen Shoulder and Filing for Disability
Preparing for a Disability Hearing to Win Social Security or SSI Benefits
Filing the Social Security Disability Application
How Long Does It Usually Take To Get Disability After I see Their Medical Examiner?
What Income Will Affect Your Disability Benefits?
What are the questions that get asked at a social security disability or SSI hearing?
Social Security Disability List of Impairments
Can the Social Security Office give you Bad Advice on a Disability Claim?
The Social Security Award Letter
How Will Social Security Look At My Case If I have More Than One Disabling Condition?
How to Apply for Disability - What medical conditions can you apply for disability for?
The Difference Between Filing A New Disability Claim And Filing A Disability Appeal?
Medical Evidence Used on a Social Security Disability or SSI Claim
What is the SSI and Social Security Disability Application Wait Time?
Generalized anxiety disorder and Filing for Disability
Pennsylvania Social Security Disability SSI Lawyer Representation
How Do You Avoid A Social Security Disability Overpayment?
Getting a disability lawyer in New York
When can I expect my first disability check and my back pay check?
Why is the Social Security Administration definition of disability so strict?
Applying for disability benefits in Oregon
What Is the Five Step Sequential Evaluation Process Social Security Uses In Every Disability Case?
SSD and SSI are Federal Programs
The title II Social Security Disability and title 16 SSI Disability programs operate under federal guidelines and, therefore, the program requirements--medical and non-medical--apply to all states:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Recent approval and denial statistics for various states can be viewed here:
Social Security Disability, SSI Approval and Denial Statistics by state
Special Section: Disability Lawyers and unnecessary claim denials
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