This online compendium, also known as Disability Assessment under Social Security, lists physical and mental health conditions that automatically qualify you as meeting the medical requirements to receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Insurance Income (SSI), provided you meet the strict list of criteria for each condition. If a person is disabled and unable to work due to fibromyalgia, that person may qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Unfortunately, there is no list for fibromyalgia in the Social Security Guide to Disabling Conditions (also known as the Blue Book), so proving complete disability and obtaining disability benefits due to an FM diagnosis can be difficult as there are no specific criteria for approval. Here is the interpretation of the SSA policy for FM. Many leukemia patients are quickly and automatically admitted to disability benefits. Social Security has a disability list for various lung-related impairments, which require applicants to take an associated test that shows restricted airflow in the lungs. 4. Other miscellaneous conditions that may cause lower limb weakness, sensory changes, areflexia, trophic ulceration, urinary or bowel incontinence that should be assessed below 1.04 include, but are not limited to, osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, facet arthritis and vertebral fractures. Disorders such as spinal dysrhaphy (e.g., spina bifida), diastematomyelia, and attached cord syndrome can also cause such abnormalities. In these cases, due to neurological abnormalities, walking difficulties and deformities of the lower limbs may occur, and neurological effects are determined according to the criteria in 11.00ff. “Automatic” here means that Social Security recognizes that these conditions meet its basic definition of disability: an illness or injury that prevents you from working for at least one year, or is likely to result in death.
To receive SSDI, you must also have spent some time on a job for which you paid Social Security taxes. To be eligible for the ISS, you must have very limited income and financial assets. B. Exacerbations or complications requiring three hospitalizations within a 12-month period and at least 30 days apart (the 12-month period must be within the period we are considering as part of your application or ongoing review of your disability). Any hospital stay must last at least 48 hours, including hours in a hospital emergency room immediately prior to hospitalization. Consider under a disability for 1 year from the date of discharge of the last hospitalization; Next, assess the residual deficiency(s) below 3.03 or another appropriate list. If you are not fluent in English, you should take word recognition tests with a list of words appropriate for the language you speak most fluently. The person taking the test must be fluent in the language used for the test.
If there is no appropriate word list or person who is fluent in the language and qualified to take the test, it may not be possible to measure your word recognition ability. If your predictive ability cannot be measured, your hearing loss may not reach 2.10 B or 2.11 B. Instead, we will look at the facts of your case to determine if you have difficulty understanding words in the language you speak most fluently and, if so, whether this level of difficulty is medically equivalent to 2.10B or 2.11B. For example, we`ll look at how you interact with family members, interpreters, and others who speak the language you speak most fluently. Determining whether a patient has FM can often only be determined by an “exclusion diagnosis” after ruling out other possible conditions such as bone, muscle or nerve diseases, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, anemia or possible infections have been ruled out by extensive testing. b. You should not wear hearing aids during the test. In addition, a person described in section 2.00B1c must perform an otoscopic examination immediately prior to the audiometric examination. (An otoscopic exam provides a description of how your external ear canals look and an assessment of the eardrums. In these rules, we use the term for otoscopic examinations performed by physicians and otoscopic inspections performed by audiologists and others.) The otoscopic examination must demonstrate that there are no conditions that would prevent a valid audiometric examination, such as fluid in the ear, an ear infection, or an obstruction in an ear canal.
The person taking the test should also report any other factors, such as: Your collaboration with the test, which may affect the interpretation of the test results. The Blue Book should not be confused with the Social Security Compassionate Care Allowance (CAL) program, although both list conditions that, by definition, correspond to the Social Security disability standard. The CAL program establishes conditions that can give you an expedited decision on an SSDI or SSI claim. The Blue Book sets out criteria for classifying a condition as a disability, not for speeding up the process. We take into account your health, age, education, work experience and transferable skills. If you are unable to perform other work, we will decide that you are entitled to disability benefits. If you are able to perform other work, we will determine that you do not have an eligible disability and your application will be refused. I. However, you have to argue with Social Security that your illness or symptoms are as severe as those in the book in terms of limiting your work or daily functioning. (ii) We rate all types of chronic hepatitis virus infections below 5.05 or a list in an affected body system. If your impairment does not fit a list or does not fit medically, we will consider the effects of your hepatitis when assessing your residual functionality.
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