Though many claimants for social security disability and ssi based on disability may not be
aware of the fact, disability cases can be closed due to a failure to cooperate on the part
of the claimant.
Generally, a failure to cooperate closure happens in scenarios similar to this:
- The Examiner at Disability Determination Services schedules a claimant for a medical examination, known as a consultative examination, or CE.
- The claimant fails to go to the medical exam.
- The claimant provides a reasonable or semi-reasonable reason for missing the medical exam and the disability examiner agrees to reschedule the consultative exam.
- The disability claimant again misses the scheduled exam, but, once again, provides a plausible reason for having missed the appointment (such as automotive problems, sickness, family emergency) resulting in the examiner scheduling the claimant for a third time.
- The claimant misses the third scheduled consultative exam date.
- The Examiner closes the case for "failure to cooperate".
Of course, not every claimant will be given up to three separate opportunities to go to a scheduled exam. This example simply illustrates that a claim may justifiably be closed when a claimant fails repeatedly to cooperate in its development.
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