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Your age may affect your entitlement to Social Security disability or SSI disability because of the medical and vocational guidelines. Medical vocational guidelines consist of age categories with information about residual functional capacity limitations. These rules are most often used to determine if an individual who is applying for disability has the capacity to work, even with the limitations they have that are imposed by age and impairments (education and work skills, however, also play a role in the medical-vocational disability determination process). For instance, individuals who have worked at jobs that require a medium strength level and are over fifty-five years of age may be a medical vocational allowance (i.e. may be approved for disability benefits). Age is considered a factor in job retrainability and transferability of skills to other jobs in the national economy. Therefore, for this reason, age is given consideration as a factor when it comes to making decisions on disability claims. Can age ever count against you in the disability determination process. Not really. However, some individuals may perceive that this is the case since it is generally true that, all else being equal, an older person will often have an easier chance of being approved for SSD or approved for SSI if they are older. 
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