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What makes you eligible to get SSI or social security disability in huntersville north carolina? To be eligible for social security disability benefits, also known as title II benefits, a claimant must have worked and paid into the "system" enough to have become insured for disability benefits. This is why social security is referred to as social security disability insurance and also disability insurance benefits. For SSI, there is no such requirement since it is a needs-based program. In other words, if you don't qualify for Social security disability, you will generally qualify for SSI (provided that you do not have more than two thousand dollars in assets.
Can you win disability for only certain impairments, or on the basis of any impairment?
Answer: The Social Security Administration's disability evaluation system does not focus on a claimant's diagnosis, but, rather, on the functional limitations a claimant has. In other words, the name of the condition is not the chief consideration. How the condition "affects and limits: the indiviual is the primary concern. So, yes, disability benefits can be won on the basis of nearly any condition provided that the condition is sufficiently limiting.
As these hypothetical examples show, disabling conditions can take a wide variety of forms.
"I have suffered from a herniated disk since the middle of Feb. I saw a back specialist recently who advised me that not only do I have a herniated disk, I also have arthritis and that I may have permanent nerve damage in my left leg."
"I have severe muscle spasms in my back, I have a bulging disc in my neck that for the past year has caused severe pain and impairment of use of my right arm, from shoulder to fingers."
"Heart attack, and have anxiety condition, high blood preasure, and severe back problems."
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