Social Security Looks at Disability to Be Totally Disabling
Social Security defines disability in a fairly straightforward way. Basically, as the inability of an individual to perform substantial work activity for twelve months.
This can be measured in terms of a 12 month period that has already occurred, or social security can project, based on available medical and vocational evidence, that an individual will be unable to perform substantial gainful work activity (this activity is measured by SGA, a gross monthly earnings amount set by Social Security which changes annually) for twelve months due to a medically determinable mental and/or physical impairment. The definition also includes the prospect that an individual’s impairment may be expected to result in death.
Social Security considers an individual's state of disability to be a state of total disability. This means that an individual who is approved for benefits is considered to be unable, given their medical condition and vocational profile, to perform any kind of substantial work activity.
The SSA definition of disability quite obviously precludes immediate short term disability benefits. Short term disability and partial disability are concepts that fall completely outside of the social security administration's view of benefit eligibility based on disability.
Additionally, Social Security disability has a five month waiting period for which they never pay disability benefits. In fact, an individual may have to wait months or even years to be approved for disability benefits if they've been denied on an initial claim and have to avail themselves of the Social Security disability appeals process.
At the risk of being redundant, Social Security disability is also not a percentage disability program like veterans benefits. There are no partial Social Security disability benefits, because if an individual has an impairment that is not totally disabling, they are considered to possess the ability to perform some type of work that is available in the general economy.
Strictly speaking, Social Security disability is a disability program that is based upon an individual’s residual functional capacity (what an individual is able to do in spite of the limitations imposed upon them by their disabling condition or conditions). Thus, if an individual’s residual functional capacity is not so severely restricted as to preclude all substantial work activity, their disability claim will be denied.
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This can be measured in terms of a 12 month period that has already occurred, or social security can project, based on available medical and vocational evidence, that an individual will be unable to perform substantial gainful work activity (this activity is measured by SGA, a gross monthly earnings amount set by Social Security which changes annually) for twelve months due to a medically determinable mental and/or physical impairment. The definition also includes the prospect that an individual’s impairment may be expected to result in death.
Social Security considers an individual's state of disability to be a state of total disability. This means that an individual who is approved for benefits is considered to be unable, given their medical condition and vocational profile, to perform any kind of substantial work activity.
The SSA definition of disability quite obviously precludes immediate short term disability benefits. Short term disability and partial disability are concepts that fall completely outside of the social security administration's view of benefit eligibility based on disability.
Additionally, Social Security disability has a five month waiting period for which they never pay disability benefits. In fact, an individual may have to wait months or even years to be approved for disability benefits if they've been denied on an initial claim and have to avail themselves of the Social Security disability appeals process.
At the risk of being redundant, Social Security disability is also not a percentage disability program like veterans benefits. There are no partial Social Security disability benefits, because if an individual has an impairment that is not totally disabling, they are considered to possess the ability to perform some type of work that is available in the general economy.
Strictly speaking, Social Security disability is a disability program that is based upon an individual’s residual functional capacity (what an individual is able to do in spite of the limitations imposed upon them by their disabling condition or conditions). Thus, if an individual’s residual functional capacity is not so severely restricted as to preclude all substantial work activity, their disability claim will be denied.
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