How does social security define your past work?
When a social security disability or SSI disability case is evaluated, regardless of whether the case is decided by a disability examiner (examiners decide claims at the application and reconsideration levels) or an administrative law judge (at a disability hearing), a determination will most likely be made as to whether or not an applicant can return to their past work.
How does this process work; in other words, how does social security decide whether or not a person can return to their past work? This aspect of the social security disability process is fairly simple.
Social security will evaluate a claimant's work history to determine the requirements and demands of their former jobs, i.e. their past work. Social security will also evaluate a claimant's medical records and determine what their RFC, or residual functional capacity, is. Residual functional capacity simply means A) what they are able to do and B) what they are unable to do as a result of their physical and/or mental condition. Then, social security will compare the claimant's RFC rating against the requirements of their past work. If the claimant's limitations are too severe, the determination will be made that they cannot return to their past work.
Is every job ever done by a claimant considered to be part of their "past work"? No, social security only considers jobs performed in the last 15 years to officially be classified as "past work".
Note: even if social security determines that a claimant is unable to perform their past work, a further determination must be made as to whether a claimant can perform "other work.
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How does this process work; in other words, how does social security decide whether or not a person can return to their past work? This aspect of the social security disability process is fairly simple.
Social security will evaluate a claimant's work history to determine the requirements and demands of their former jobs, i.e. their past work. Social security will also evaluate a claimant's medical records and determine what their RFC, or residual functional capacity, is. Residual functional capacity simply means A) what they are able to do and B) what they are unable to do as a result of their physical and/or mental condition. Then, social security will compare the claimant's RFC rating against the requirements of their past work. If the claimant's limitations are too severe, the determination will be made that they cannot return to their past work.
Is every job ever done by a claimant considered to be part of their "past work"? No, social security only considers jobs performed in the last 15 years to officially be classified as "past work".
Note: even if social security determines that a claimant is unable to perform their past work, a further determination must be made as to whether a claimant can perform "other work.
Social Security Disability and Other work
Return to:
Other Posts and Pages
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SSA criteria and disability qualifications
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